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Second time around, the crime is shown as it actually happens. Everything goes hilariously wrong. Caine turns out to be a stone-fingered amateur, his accomplice a witty little chit who can't keep her mouth shut, the millionaire himself an alarmingly shrewd article who instantly suspects that Caine & Co. are up to no good. Even so, he invites the crooks to his apartment for the pure pleasure of watching their faces when they see that the bust of the empress is secluded in an impenetrable electronic seraglio...
...underplaying ideology, Evans and Novak are free to concentrate on the mechanics of practical politics. In the recent election campaign, they contrasted Richard Nixon's shrewd construction of a cross-country network of political allies with George Romney's failure to build a national organization for a presidential drive. Bobby Kennedy's major weakness, the pair pointed out, is not that he is too much of a boss in New York but that he is too little of a leader. He throws his energy into winning "broad popular support," not into "brick-by-brick construction of organizational...
...Ludwig Hoch), Maxwell left school at ten, left his family's one-room Carpathian mountain home at 16 to join the underground fighting Hitler. Later he made his way to Britain, joined the British army as a private, left as a captain. With the profits of some shrewd postwar trading in German scientific manuscripts, he bought Pergamon in 1951 for $36,400, cajoled experts from all over the world into writing scientific tomes for him. Fluent in nine languages including Russian, he won a virtual corner on rights to Soviet scientific works by face-to-face salesmanship with Nikita...
...quote-heavy speech, with references ranging all the way from Lyndon Johnson and Oliver Cromwell to Heraclitus and Anatole France (commenting on Kant), Katzenbach concluded: "Can I urge each and every one of you that you have got political problems at home and that you should be as shrewd observers and as concerned about politics here in the United States-about what public opinion is and about what the Congress is doing-as you are about the politics of foreign countries...
...office-holder who defeated him by visiting radio and TV stations, and newspapers across the state during the hunt for delegates' votes. Of course, after the June convention comes the September primary, but rejection of the convention nominee is rare. The loss of an election, then, for a shrewd Massachusetts politician was more of a momentary setback than a defeat; and the losing politicians often made good use of their extra time...