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Schwartzwalder makes no bones about the fact that his system is based on shrewd and aggressive recruiting. He gets his best material from families with modest incomes. "You don't find many really wealthy boys playing college football today," he says. "But a really poor boy is also a poor risk. He'll always be concerned with the folks at home and constantly needing money just for bare necessities-and this can mean trouble...
Quarterback Ted Halaby has acquired a certain amount of savoir-faire after one and one-half games of nearly continuous service on offense, and, though no Ravenel, he is at least shrewd and steady. Larry Repsher, if his bruised ribs do not hamper him, should continue to be a fast, driving runner at right half, and fullback Jimmy Nelson should not give Yoviesin any worries...
This, then, is apartheid. The result of the ref- endum shows that despite all the misery and suffering, the majority of Whites want more apartheid. And that is what Dr. Verwoerd, a shrewd mass psychologist (his docttorate subject was psychology), offered them when he asked them to approve of his plan for a republic...
Buyers' Market. The shrewd bargainer can get good discounts on 1960 autos if he finds a dealer with a hefty backlog. Cuts on 1961 "models are harder to find. They are selling too well. Goodyear is slicing its winter tire prices from 10% to more than 15% on popular sizes. American Motors was the only U.S. automaker to raise its 1961-model prices-by $10 to $60-and the Frigidaire division of General Motors announced last week that it is "holding the price line" on 1961-model appliances. Even Robert Burns took big ads to boast price cuts...
...have a choice between two able, liberal intellectuals, the Republican incumbent, Clifford Case, and Democratic Kingmaker Thorn Lord (full name: Balfour Bowen Thorn Lord). A big-time lawyer, Lord works in Trenton, lords it over a claque of intellectuals at home in Princeton. No mere egghead, he is a shrewd politician who rebuilt the Democratic Party statewide after the collapse of Jersey City's Boss Hague, was one of the earliest advocates of all-out registration drives. After Lord masterminded Bob Meyner's rise to the governor's mansion, the awed northern Jersey bosses acknowledged his political...