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...would be dead right. An uninitiated individual investor has to buy diamonds at retail, paying huge markups, but he can only sell his stones at wholesale levels. So the price has to rise considerably for the ordinary investor to break even. Meanwhile, he has cash tied up in an asset that pays no dividends or interest...
...years ago, he was at Boston University, battling the Establishment as an activist sympathizer of the Students for a Democratic Society. Today he wears three-piece suits as a senior associate of a Manhattan-based management consulting firm. "The former radicals are an asset to business," he says. "They are aggressive as hell, they're by and large well educated, they have stamina. Business is a rigorous area in which to channel the same kind of energies we had then. And it's damn satisfying to see the results of your work on a balance sheet...
...sort of tour d'horizon. State Department assistants had to ask if the Secretary could change the transcript substantially before it was released. In his appearance, said one State Department man, Foster ticked off countries with capsule evaluations: "France ... all those mistresses and dirty postcards. Italians ... an asset to their enemies in every war they've fought. The Middle East: full of Arabs, but also full of oil." Churchill remarked, "Foster Dulles is the only case I know of a bull who carries his china shop with him." That may be too brisk a dismissal. Though he operated...
...Governor also has an ability to keep cool. He remains, to a large extent, the unassuming, engaging antipoverty worker who first came to West Virginia 14 years ago, a carpetbagger who chose to stay. His wife Sharon, 33, the daughter of Illinois Senator Charles Percy, is a definite political asset. The lanky (6 ft. 6 ½ in.) Governor can often be seen playing catch or shooting baskets with their three children in the backyard of the executive mansion, closely watched by the security guards that inevitably attend a Rockefeller...
...bill, a tax cut, the passage of Panama Canal and SALT II treaties, and Middle East peace. If most of those goals are achieved, the President's standing in the polls will doubtless move up. Then, when the time for hard campaigning begins, his support would become a valuable asset to even the most independent members of the balky new Congress who are running for reelection...