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...unfamiliar faces abound on this year's team, and that could produce some interesting results...
...coded and decoded by hand. Now they think nothing about sending three or four pages, and many of these are being sent just because you can send them." Admits Turner: "There is no question that our entire procedure for handling classified documents in this Government is sloppy." Horror stories abound. Turner recalls that, when CIA Clerk William Kampiles sold a classified manual on satellite surveillance to the Soviets (for $3,000), the CIA checked and could not find 13 other authorized copies of the same document...
...essays collected represent the years from 1977 to 1984. The later ones are the better crafted; Epstein seems to have hit perfect stride. Felicitous phrases, crisp construction, and clever cadences abound. Graced with wit, critical authority, and several rounds of silver bullets. Sheriff Epstein should make the literary delinquents quake...
...called the Candidate and later the President is manifestly Salvador Allende. Similarly, the Poet, whose verse everyone in the book seems to have memorized, is clearly Chile's late Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Ghostly happenings are commonplace in the great house of the "spirits" belonging to the Truebas. Eccentrics abound in that household. Rosa the Beautiful, for example, possesses a head of green hair that hangs "like a botanical mantle" down to her waist. Nicolas Trueba moves from one enterprise to another, successively teaching flamenco dancing, building a zeppelin, running a chicken-sandwich factory, traveling around India clad...
After the thinclads spent two vag-abound years to MIT and B.C. to train and compete, the track was opened in the spring of 1984, but like any new home, the new Harvard track had its share of growing pains...