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...thoroughbreds and worked diligently to improve the breed. Sports are his latest craze. He captains a championship volleyball team and recently dunked in 92 points in a basketball game. Eccentric and mercurial he may be, but Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 41, is also one of the shrewdest leaders in South east Asia...
...turbine Chryslers into the hands of specially selected customers for testing?a step that Townsend hopes will give Chrysler a commanding lead in development of what may prove the auto engine of the future. But the impact of Townsend's turnaround is already apparent among those shrewdest of critics, the dealers. Says Sacramento Dealer Dalton Feldstein: "It's a new spirit, a new era?and it's about time...
Using Rothman as a base, Rupert began setting up subsidiaries throughout the Commonwealth. His shrewdest move came in 1958. Capitalizing on a peculiar stock arrangement in London's venerable Carreras Tobacco Co. (Craven A), he won control of the company for only $4,500,000, quickly sold off antiquated factories for $15 million to finance a modernization program...
Some of the shrewdest German buyers are flocking to the "Irish Riviera," as they call Eire's eastern counties, where farm land is almost one-fourth the price of comparable terrain in high-priced Germany. However, prices usually soar at the drop of a guttural. After failing to sell 67 rocky acres for $1,000 in 1959, a County Cork farmer recently unloaded 15 of them for $8,000. High prices and scarce land have also brought prosperity to con men. Last week on the Spanish coast, where in some places land has doubled in price...
ALFRED WILLIAM ("Eric") ERICKSON, son of a Swedish engineer, was a kindly, rotund gentleman whose affable manner concealed one of the shrewdest business minds of his day and the same kind of boundless energy that was the hallmark of his friend Teddy Roosevelt. Long before he merged his prospering advertising agency with another to make McCann-Erickson, he had piled up a fortune by investing in products for which few others saw any future. Once, for example, he heard about an unsuccessful roofing material called Congo. He bought the company, painted the material a different color, turned it into...