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...shrewd tactician, Young opened his campaign by trying to win White over to his side. He invited him to lunch in the lofty Cloud Club dining room atop Manhattan's Chrysler Building. There he painted a glowing picture of the Central's future, with business booming enough so that the price of Central stock would quadruple to 100. Young's plans for the Central call for borrowing $250 million and replacing all passenger cars with his "Train X" (a low, two-wheeled car that "flows around curves...
...shrewd real-estate buyer, Tacho owns almost 10% of his country's arable land. Because his holdings are widely scattered, Nicaragua now has more than 600 miles of all-weather public roads, compared with twelve miles in the '30s. Along a 40-mile stretch of the new road from Managua to Tamarindo, there is not a single town, village or house-but the road ends at a valuable salt flat where Tacho plans to process enough salt for the whole country. His diversified interests have helped transform Nicaragua from a one-crop (coffee) country into an exporter...
...most talked-about new star since Jean Harlow. Her figure (5 ft. 51 in., 118 Ibs., bust 37 in., hips 37 in., waist 24 in.) inspires admiring whistles across the land. But she has sustained interest in herself not only as a pretty blonde, but also as a shrewd one capable of self-expression (i.e., on avoiding excessive sunbathing: "I like to feel blonde all over"). She has also proved, to the surprise of many critics, that she can sing, dance and act (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire). Now seriously concerned about her career, she walked...
Twenty-four hours after the government fell, the Christian Democratic high command gathered in the home of Alcide de Gasperi. It briskly agreed on a program (more reforms, more vigorous measures against Red-led violence, unemployment remedies), and nominated Fanfani as its candidate for Premier. Fanfani, the shrewd politician, hoped to widen his support by getting Right-Winger Attilio Pic-cioni as his Vice Premier. There were signs this week that politicians from left to right might have become enough aware of the common peril to rally around Fanfani. Even one group of Monarchists hinted that they might support...
...trim their output, which in most cases had already exceeded their fondest hopes for the full year. Those who had feared that any step down from boom heights would mean a disastrous fall were proved wrong; the steps were orderly and gradual. Although prices officially showed little change, the shrewd buyer of autos and other hard goods could almost quote his own price, sometimes down as much as 30%. At year's end, layoffs were higher than in three years...