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...more than fighting spirit for the U.S. to succeed in Viet Nam. Hovering over the bay in a helicopter prior to his final departure for Washington, Taylor watched his old outfit land, then issued a soldierly warning. The Communist Viet Cong, he said, is "an enemy who is shrewd, well-trained, and with the guile of the American Indian during his best days...
After graduation in 1755, he taught school and studied law, confiding his purpose to his diary in a characteristic balance of idealism, ambition and shrewd observation of his own character and human nature in general: "What are the Motives, that ought to urge me to hard study? The Desire of Fame, Fortune and personal Pleasure. A critical Knowledge of the Greek and Roman and french Poetry, History and Oratory, a thorough comprehensive knowledge of natural, civil, commercial, and Province Law, will draw upon me the Esteem and perhaps Admiration (tho possibly the Envy too) of the Judges of both Courts...
...Angelis wisely saw that a shrewd operator could make a fortune out of two other Government programs: farm price supports and foreign aid. His idea: buy up the bulging soybean surplus, turn it into soybean oil, which is used for everything from salad dressing to paint, and ship the oil abroad-either privately or through the many Government aid programs. Between 1958 and 1962, De Angelis built a sprawling refinery in Bayonne and leased 139 oil storage tanks, many as tall as five-story buildings. Operating in a slippery, fiercely competitive industry, he outdid other companies by buying the most...
...Real Raid. Simon is a constant and shrewd reader of profit and loss statements. He looks for companies with broad stock ownership, shares undervalued in relation to book values, sluggish management and sickly earnings. If he finds a likely case, he may dispatch aides to probe the situation deeper, use his contacts in Wall Street to find out why things are not better than they are. Eventually Simon may make a visit to the company himself?he took eight trips to West Virginia in the course of buying into Wheeling Steel?but his trips are mainly for general impressions rather...
...Showers. The garter on the Sox, of course, is Lopez. A shrewd tactician who believes in "percentage baseball," he calls practically every move his players make. One of his pet theories holds that batters tend to swing harder when they are ahead of the balls-and-strikes count, easier when they are behind. So he is constantly realigning the White Sox defense. "He moved me on every pitch for a whole season," one of Lopez's third basemen once reported...