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...credits their exhaustive training with producing minds that "operate with a rapidity and lucidity that is the envy of their colleagues." In any major capital of the world, invitations to French embassy affairs are valued above all others, and the French display what may be their greatest diplomatic asset-supreme elegance. The Quai has, of course, failures as well as successes. Some embassies are shockingly bad, especially those heavily manned by former colonial officers who retain a colonial mentality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Pebbles in the Pond | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...Bears' have no big gun. All the members of their starting five are averaging about 10 points per game. With two men at 6-5 and one at 6-6, rebounding is their major asset...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quintet Will Battle Brown, Yale; Crimson May Pull Upset on Elis | 1/29/1964 | See Source »

Scranton however, has never been deposed from a Senate seat by a brash young Congressman named Kennedy, nor has he run for vice-President and lost. His greatest asset is that he has not done very much of anything, and rival partisans, therefore, have precious little to hold against...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: A Man for No Reasons | 1/15/1964 | See Source »

...poor Negroes with rich minds and then finds colleges and scholarships for them. In 15 years of scouring South and North, NSSFNS (which is commonly reduced to "Ness-feness" in speech) has successfully planted 9,000 Negroes in 350 mostly-white colleges, and last week it revealed its chief asset: the Negroes' own passionate desire to succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scholarships: The Will to Succeed | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...advance subscription sale exceeds $150,000. Seattle businessmen are standing behind the rep company because, profitable or not, they think it will be good for Seattle: "It can become another asset," they say almost in chorus, "like Mount Rainier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Way Off Broadway: New Rainier | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

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