Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surrender the veto, but was disappointed. Then he got a bright idea. Selz simply asked two galleries in France and five in the U.S. to import the works he wanted. "As simple as importing Polish hams," he said. The rest of the display he gathered from a variety of shrewd U.S. collectors, including Pittsburgh's G. David Thompson. Manhattan's Joseph Hirshhorn, and the world's Joe Alsop, who bought early in the rising Polish art market...
...make their appearance, the chauffeurs' waiting room has given way to a drive-yourself rental agency, and as for the late Mr. Bagby, he was not even replaced by Muzak. The one link to the Waldorf era: Claudius Charles Philippe, for many years the Waldorf's shrewd general factotum, is now the Tisches' executive vice president and general manager...
...traveling salesman with the roughest route was Britain's tough, shrewd Duncan Sandys, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations...
...Chicago, Anthropologist Spoehr is famed for having enriched a remarkable center of Polynesian artifacts at the Bishop Museum. (One item: a royal cloak left by Kamehameha I that is made of extinct birds' feathers and is now valued at $1,000,000.) Spoehr is also known as a shrewd administrator: he accepted his new $25,000-a-year job only after insisting that the regents carry out all the Kerr-Gardner recommendations, give him full power to aim the center toward "real eminence and distinction." No sooner had the regents agreed last week than President Snyder resigned...
...eight years since he took over as Prime Minister and shrewd strongman of Afghanistan, Daoud had played the neutralist role cannily enough to keep the money rolling in from both quarters. The Russians built a military and jet airport near Kabul, the capital. The U.S. is just finishing a huge, 10,500-ft. jetport near Kandahar, has started work on other civil airports at Herat, Kunduz and Jalalabad. Russian and U.S. highway gangs compete, in trying to outbuild one another...