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Hatoyama is successfully winning Japanese conservatives away from the old Yoshida Liberal Party, while the disunited Socialists, though they are expected to gain between 15 and 30 seats in the 467-seat Diet, are given little chance of outmatching Hatoyama's shrewd, votegetting platform of nationalism, conservatism and a drift to neutralism in the cold...
...Private Diaries of Stendhal, edited by Robert Sage. An extraordinary diary covering the youthful years of the brilliant French novelist who dashed off his shrewd or naive, witty or amorous comments on how to get on in the world while he was getting on (TIME...
...Show. Neuberger's shrewd and professional campaign was almost entirely a one-man (and a woman) show: Neuberger made all the decisions, wrote most of the press releases, planned all the attacks. In the first phase of his campaign he told Oregonians, in shocked, evangelistic tones and in endless reiteration, that Cordon was a sinister reactionary who took tidelands oil away from their children's mouths, gave away dams and power lines to private utilities, tried to wreck Eisenhower's foreign policy and opposed everything from cancer research to free school lunches. The voters were impressed...
...still perceptible appeal. If the play sometimes seems quaint, that is perhaps because every woman knows so much more than she did in 1908. But few playwrights today know half as much about smart box-office methods as Barrie did then. After 46 years, his sense of theater and shrewd manipulation of sentiment still...
...team; and Frederick C. Miller Jr., 20, Notre Dame student; in a private-plane crash; at Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field. An All-America tackle and team captain at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne and a sportsman ever since, Miller took over the family brewery in 1947, with shrewd advertising (for year-round, quality trade) and an expanded plant and distribution network nearly quadrupled annual sales in six years, putting Miller among the top ten U.S. beer producers...