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...success seems largely due to the shrewd management of muzzy, homey Rolf McPherson, who looks, says one colleague, "like the man who comes onstage from the side and takes the third seat from the center." McPherson, who lives modestly in a middle-class Los Angeles suburb, has a Scotsman's knack for paring pennies and replenishing coffers. He himself attributes the church's survival to his mother's vision. "Soul winning is the one big business of the church," she declared; most of her convert-seeking followers tithe, while many give up weekends to build or repair...
...Zone.) Chiari's father was one of the leaders in Panama's fight for independence from Colombia, soon after built up a fortune in cattle and sugar. When the family fell on hard times during the Depression '30s, Roberto worked on a Panama Canal ferry. But shrewd real estate deals and other investments have rebuilt the family fortune, until today the Chiaris are millionaires many times over...
...kind. By using assembly-line techniques and various hurry-up tricks that would have shocked old-style instrumentmakers, Kawakami lowered the time needed to produce a piano from two years to three months. He does not feel that this produces the world's best piano, but with a shrewd eye for publicity he can point to the fact that his pianos are already used by Composer (Guys & Dolls) Frank Loesser, Fred Astaire, Guy Lombardo, and some of Conrad Hilton's hotels...
...raged-as much about the man as about his deed. "Both the weakness and the greatness of Charles de Gaulle," observed the New York Times's James Reston, "is that he's so sure that he is right." The Christian Science Monitor called him "a headstrong and shrewd nationalist, deliberately acting against the community of great powers that has enforced the peace since World War II." Said the New York Daily News: "It has often been noticed that when a great man makes a mistake, it is usually a great mistake that he makes...
Hawaiian sportsmen try to beat the game by jack-lighting bonefish at night with miners' head lamps. In Bermuda, they wade out to deeper water where the bonefish hopefully feels more secure-but that risks a dunking, and the shrewd Bermudian floats himself out in Junior's inner tube. The best way is in a flat-bottomed skiff with an expert guide like Florida's George Hommel to spot the fish and patiently explain the technique. "You cast ahead of the fish, in the direction he's moving," says Hommel...