Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dallas' gruff, shrewd Real Estate Tycoon O. L. Nelms. For more than a decade, Nelms has placed advertisements in the personal columns of local papers saying, "Thank you, Dallas, for helping O L. Nelms make another million." Now he has an even bigger and better idea: he is creating a $5,000,000 fund to provide huge public cocktail parties with free food and drink for anyone who wants to attend. By spending only the income Nelms can give several super swingers a year from now till the end of time. "This would be a real nice...
...week canvassing the freshman dormitories for political talent. We weren't too successful, if the truth be known, finding most of my classmates had their minds on P.T. credits and Gen Ed Ahf and the girl next door in Nat Sci 5 lab. Harvard seemed to be a pretty shrewd head, always bending just enough this way or that, always holding out just enough personal and academic freedom to keep people busy...
Without Permission. Von Rosen, in addition to idealism, is guided by a shrewd sense of publicity. This time his exploits have been photographed and tape-recorded from the start. They were being played back at home last week by the Stockholm newspaper Expressen. The report of sneak transactions and flamboyant attacks embarrassed the neutral Swedish government, which set lawyers digging for statutes under which Von Rosen could be prosecuted...
...plot springs from his search for moral equilibrium. Each of the characters closest to him seems to have found a partial solution. His partner, Blueboy, a shrewd, gamy con man, will play whatever role the whites expect of him with a comic and cynical flourish. His mistress, Kelly Sims, a college-educated chemist, bravely but quixotically banks her hopes for Negro progress on intellect. His eventual wife, Lila, a wise but unlettered country girl, has the "black granite" endurance that was once popularly thought to be the essential quality of the Negro race...
Surprisingly, local products are often the least attractive buys of all because of local taxes-or because shrewd sellers reckon that in-transit passengers will think that a local product is obviously a bargain at any price. A quart of V.S.O.P. cognac, $5 at Ireland's Shannon airport, costs $6.30 at Paris' Orly. In Belgrade, a bottle of "Manastrika" slivovitz is $2.50 at the airport and $1.50 in town. Thousands of passengers eagerly buy watches at Swiss airports, where they are not duty-free and cost about 10% more than at downtown watchmakers. German-made cameras, tape recorders...