Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Down. It was a shrewd ploy. Turkey had been cold to the idea when it was first broached by Ayub Khan last year. Since then, the Turks have been more ready to listen to Pakistani suggestions of an independent and self-serving foreign policy. Both nations feel a bit let down by the U.S. In Pakistan's case, it is the old grievance over arms shipments to India; in Turkey's, the U.S. position on Cyprus, which Turks regard as pro-Greek...
...Norton Simon startled museum trustees by offering matching funds for a separate art museum. Museum President Edward Carter, a shrewd retailer (Broadway-Hale Stores) as well as chairman of the University of California's Board of Regents, set out to raise $4,500,000, and through his persuasion wound up with $12 million. At a white-tie extravaganza last week, Comedian Bob Hope called the museum "the most magnificent tax deduction I've ever seen." He had a right to say so: he donated...
Young Cassidy, most of it derived from the late Sean O'Casey's multi-volume autobiography Mirror in My House, is a shrewd compromise between truth and the blander stuff that makes agreeable popular entertainment. The man himself was a crusty, anticlerical Communist, scarcely the image of a conventional movie hero, though he also happened to be one of the grandest playwrights of the 20th century. Cassidy, filmed in and around Dublin with a wholehearted feel for the gritty poetry of the slums where the author lived and worked at the time of the Troubles, cuts...
...central fingerprint file." In the course of his career, Hoover has regularly exaggerated the FBI's accomplishments, writes Kraft. But why not? All federal bureaus, from the FCC to the Reclamation Bureau, do the same. While Hoover has a reputation for being his own boss, he is shrewd enough always to cultivate close relations with the man in the White House-Republican or Democratic. "That explains the flowers sent to Walter Jenkins when he first entered the hospital; and it explains why Hoover immediately began going around Attorney General Kennedy and directly to President Johnson after the assassination...
Automation Threat. Whether the shrewd appointment of Gaherin can actually avert another shutdown is a question that probably will not be answered much before March 30, if then. As expected, the preliminary jousting has only spelled out the distance between the two sides. Gaherin, for instance, has offered a $10.50 wage increase over three years, and a three-year contract, to apply to all nine craft unions. Powers has countered by demanding $15 for one year and a one-year contract...