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...North Carolina, the"Moonshine Capital of the World" (3,846 stills seized in 1954), state officials have inaugurated a shrewd new strategy against moonshiners...
MIKOYAN: A shrewd, sharp Armenian and a wizard at trade and barter. Intellect: brilliant. Force of character: limited...
Against Ringley's shrewd politicking, the Forty and Eight's Charles Ardery, still trying for a comeback, could offer little more than nuisance opposition. But even a nuisance was not to be tolerated. Last year the Kingmakers maneuvered Ardery's Forty and Eight men out of their Mayflower Hotel accommodations at the national convention in Washington. Then the Ringley group dug up a Washington regulation against more than one parade a week in the city's streets. The effect of this was to force the Forty and Eight to abandon its longtime custom of marching separately...
...still had 1) a strong will, 2) a shrewd ability to play men off against each other, and 3) the loyalty of the big unions. For the moment that was enough...
...tragicomedy of Katharine the Shrewd and Kate the Romantic is played out against the overpowering Technicolor backdrop of Venice. At first. Katharine is all businesslike competence: she industriously snaps photos, craftily measures out tips, keeps her basilisk eye fixed warily on the untrustworthy Italians. But then the Venetian magic begins; she throws open her pensione window to a vista of blue sky, green water and honey-colored walls. She walks along the canals, dazed by the murmurous dusk, by the majesty of campanile and palace, by the whisper of a distant guitar. Few actresses in films could equal Hepburn...