Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They don't actually have to start with that penny-ante stuff, but the experience could be useful. So it was that Sydney Lawford, 7, and her cousin, Maria Shriver, 8, went into business in front of the Palm Beach mansion of Grandfather Joseph P. Kennedy. Shrewd choice of location. The manse fronts on much-traveled North County Road-and their product, cold drinks priced at a nickel a gulp, quickly attracted a large clientele. But shortly the cops stepped in. Peddling without a license? No. Traffic...
...Tate's keepers, or administrators, simply had to muddle through, and they did so brilliantly. By watching their purse, they developed shrewd eyesight. Two Henry Moore drawings that cost a paltry $18 apiece in the early 1940s would now fetch a hundred times that; two Giacometti oils, bought for $112 and $168, are now worth around $25,000 apiece...
Astor wanted a Government-sanctioned monopoly, but he was shrewd enough to know he would never get it from President Jefferson. But with the added respectability of the New York State charter granted him by Clinton, he requested Jefferson's approval of the American Fur Co., and got it in a warm letter praising the patriotic motives of the company...
President-elect Leoni lacks Betancourt's fiery personal appeal, but he is an old and shrewd politician who should know a successful campaign when he sees one. He starts out with promises of loyalty from a younger, better educated, more politically sophisticated and more professional army. Whether he keeps the loyalty depends on his success as President. In the old golpista tradition, many officers still consider it their duty, as ultimate guardians of their country, to remove a President who fails...
...more than a million people who read the book know, is the rags-to-nouveau-riche story of the late playwright-director Moss Hart and his historic subway trip from The Bronx to Broadway. Hart was a shrewd, witty, candid and flamboyant theater man. As played on the screen by George Hamilton, he seems reserved, artless, uncertain. The movie audience is asked to imagine him as the boy wonder who collaborated with Writer-Director George S. Kaufman on the 1930 comedy smash, Once in a Lifetime. It's hard...