Word: doubledealing
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It fell to Chancellor Kimpton, now a Standard Oil (Indiana) executive, to spend his nine-year reign tidying up Chicago after the 21-year typhoon of Idealist Robert Maynard Hutchins. He threw out some of Hutchins' more wildly experimental courses, raised sagging undergraduate enrollment to 2,100, nearly doubled...
Sonja Henie herself owned a Gainsborough and a Renoir before she married Onstad, but to her own surprise she quickly caught her husband's enthusiasm for more contemporary art. Since their marriage, the collection has more than doubled, and almost all of the new acquisitions have been abstract. "At...
In the oil-welling land of the big spenders, Marcus has sought not only to create a store devoted to luxury but to provide standards that his often newly rich customers can rely on. Operating a store that is in many ways comparable to the best in Manhattan, he has...
Last month Kubitschek's money presses clanked out 4.4 billion cruzeiros worth ½? U.S. each, will probably add another 10 billion this month to meet year-end expenses. Total money in circulation: 194 billion cruzeiros-nearly three times the amount when Kubitschek took office. Brazil's builder-spender...
Quadros' most grotesque legacy from Kubitschek is the outgoing President's 1961 budget, presented last week. By vastly underestimating expenses and conjuring up imaginary income, Kubitschek's budget wizards produced a fictitious surplus, estimated at 520 million cruzeiros. Even that "surplus" lasted only until Congress met to...