Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth of them below cost and set out to restock with better goods. But to do so, he desperately needed an experienced soft-goods buyer. He ran through four merchandising managers in three years until last year he hooked boyish-looking Jack Schwadron, 36, the whip-smart scion of a family that helped to found New York's Alexander's cut-rate department stores (in which Korvette's has a 43% voting interest). Schwadron knows soft goods. More important, he knows the men who sell them...
...hope, from Ruark's point of view. One of the big African politicians gets a good dressing down from a colonial and finally recognizes that he should have stayed satisfied with his primitive life in the bush. "We are fast becoming a people of half-white, half-smart, half-civilized spivs and scoundrels and loafers and whores," he confesses...
...shooting small spurts of peroxide through them whenever necessary. If the capsule has been turned away from the horizontal attitude, the busy little scanners and gyros will turn it back again at 8° per minute. This is fast enough to keep it pointed properly, but too slow for smart, airplanelike maneuvers...
...Chronicle splashed the story on Page One-but gave it second play to another ripple in the crime wave that the Chronicle helped create last month (TIME, May 25). The Atlanta Journal smugly pretended it had known all along: "This sell-off had been forecast and foreseen by the smart boys for a long time." (If so, the Journal had not been listening.) Even the Wall Street Journal, which had been onto the story all along, chose to adorn its front page, the day after the dive, with a chart showing that sales of pleasure craft were sinking...
Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' so-soporific play becomes a fast, smart, squalid movie melodrama that offers its customers three of the year's top film performances, by Paul Newman, Geraldine Page and Ed Begley...