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...revamped Open attack is Walt Greeley, the tall quarterback with the accurate arm. Greeley, a proven shrewd play-caller, will be able to call on not one but three fast men to move the ball. Both the halfbacks, Charley Collins and Bob Smith, are genuine whippets, while starting fullback Mark Noble has turned in several fine runs over the season...
Harry Truman is famous for 1) shrewd practical politics and 2) crashing errors of judgment. Was it the shrewd Truman or the blundering Truman who last week nominated General Mark Clark as the first full-fledged U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican? Or was this the act of the third Harry Truman, the one who on rare occasions disregards petty politics and shows glimmerings of the statesmanship that his office has thrust upon him? Whichever way it was interpreted, Truman had kicked up the hot ashes of a long-smoldering controversy...
...natural gas was a seller's market. Shrewd businessmen circumvented the FPC by forming holding companies, which combined pipeline and "gathering" companies. These "integrated" companies charged themselves high prices, which jacked up consumer costs and brought in huge profits. "Short-arm" or independent gathering companies with no pipelines of their own, also raised their prices...
...cutting down passing yardage is to cover the receivers closely, which Colgate did to some extent. But Calvo is a shrewd enough player to know when to run, and a fast enough man to accomplish something when he is unable to throw. He ran 14 yards for a score against Colgate...
According to Clarence H. Haring '97, Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Allende is venturing a shrewd guess as a man who knows the Argentine situation from personal experience. But Haring added that it is difficult to know actually what is happening and that "any interpretation on my part would be a guess...