Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice of Bryce Harlow as chief congressional liaison man was one shrewd step. A former congressional staff member, White House aide in the Eisenhower Administration and lobbyist for Procter & Gamble, Harlow is widely known and respected by legislators of both parties. But more important than any staff appointment to date has been Nixon's determined effort to establish rapport with Chairman Wilbur Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee. With his almost total power over taxes, social security policy and related issues, Mills will be the single most important legislator in determining the success or failure of Nixon...
...Arabs who cross over show no daring. In that respect, they are nowhere near Viet Cong standards." The Israelis do respect Arafat, however. Their intelligence network has twice reported him on Israeli soil, and twice he escaped a dragnet. "Anyone who can do that has to be pretty shrewd," admits an Israeli intelligence officer grudgingly...
...Faculty has salted away an additional $9 million or so in the University's investment funds. The reason is obvious: while the departmental balance money is not really too active, the money put in the University funds is busy increasing itself. Harvard's investment policies have always been shrewd, and four times in the last 12 years the investment funds have had a 10 per cent capital increase. The income helps the Faculty; the important question, however, seems to be whether keeping the investment funds is a legitimate reason to boost tuition once more...
Died. Conrad Richter, 78, Pulitzer-prizewinning author (The Town), who wrote of U.S. pioneer life in 20 books, including The Trees, The Light in the Forest; of a heart attack; in Pottsville, Pa. With a sure ear for its speech and a shrewd eye for its manners, Richter brought early America to life. The cowboys, Indians and farmers of his novels are more than fictional characters; they are, as one critic noted, explorers who give the "truest picture of the everyday realities of frontier life...
Died. George Papandreou, 80, ex-Premier of Greece, a shrewd, ruthless politician who found the climb more exhilarating than the view from Olympus; in Athens. In a career punctuated by exile, jail and revolution, Papandreou preached a consistently leftist line, fought both the monarchy and Nazi invaders, and became Premier of World War II's government in exile. With peace, he returned to head a left-wing coalition that brought him to power again in 1963. But he resigned in 1965 as the nation's economy declined, social unrest grew and his disputes with King Constantine became ever...