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...Argentine trade treaty. Tactics are studied: Is the issue crucial enough for a personal visit by Franks to Acheson-or will more be gained by "underplaying" it and sending a counselor to his State Department opposite number? After 6½ years' experience in Washington, the Minister is pretty shrewd at pacing and directing the attack...
Adenauer would have to combat the big Social Democratic Party, led by rambunctious Kurt Schumacher and shrewd Carlo Schmid. He knew well what was ahead. After the hairline confirmation vote, a photographer asked him to smile. "Aber gern [Be glad to]," Adenauer replied, "for soon I may not have any more reason for smiling...
Elizabeth Arden Graham, shrewd careerist of paddock (Maine Chance Farm) and beauty parlor, observed: "Women and fine horses are much alike. It is strictly a matter of conformation...
Abdullah was scheduled to make a fortnight's tour of Spain, including Andalusia in the south, where his ancestors once ruled. A Spanish man-of-war will bear him home. Thus shrewd Francisco Franco would finish an important knot in the net with which he is trying to snare support in the Arab world...
Roving, rotund Elliot Paul has focused his shrewd eyes on a good many different communities in his 58 years. What he saw in the doomed Balaeric village of Santa Eulalia made moving reading in The Life and Death of a Spanish Town. One short street on the Left Bank furnished material for a bawdy but penetrating look at pre-war France in The Last Time I Saw Paris...