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...Programs. Tories also took new heart from the P.M.'s shrewd deployment of Cabinet talents. Many Britons still suspect that under his leadership the party may veer away from the progressive policies that have kept it in power for twelve years. Their fears were sharpened by the defection of Iain Macleod, a principal architect of the New Conservatism, who resigned as leader of the House and party co-chairman rather than serve under the new Prime Minister...
Sunset was never intended to play social conscience to the West. Until 1928, it was just another provincial literary magazine, plunging downhill in San Francisco. That year a migrant Kansan named Laurence W. Lane bought Sunset. An outdoorsy type himself, Lane took shrewd aim at the tide of sun worshipers flowing West and set out to make Sunset their guidebook...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, 46, the shrewd, amiable favorite of most Tory backbenchers, told friends he was prepared to fight for the job. Hailsham, an ebullient individualist whose jingoistic rhetoric stirs the squirearchy to rapture, told a wildly cheering We-Want-Hailsham rally: "I am now prepared to disclaim my peerage and resign as leader of the House of Lords and to accept the invitation of any constituency that is prepared to receive...
...years has worn a new pair of shoes every week, Walton Maxey Jarman, 59, is a surprisingly shrewd and careful shopper. As the chairman of a half-billion dollar manufacturing and retailing giant, Genesco, Inc. of Nashville, Tenn., he does most of his shopping for companies-and has bought up 46 of them since 1938. Last week, after a three-month battle, Jarman added another company to his shopping bag; for $27 million, he bought control of S. H. Kress & Co., a national chain of 342 variety stores. Genesco, which started as a shoe company and already...
...explain Harvard's frustrating second half against Massachusetts last Saturday, shrewd fans look immediately at the punting statistics. They know that football is quite similar to chess. Success often depends on position as well as manpower...