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...store to the other. I considered it a challenge each time a customer asked about the location of an obscure Super-Saver product, and I began to memorize aisle numbers. For my efforts, I was given increased power and was eventually assigned to sort the incoming merchandise and attach a sheet of price stickers to each item...
...Irish were not outraged when one U.S. press attaché noted that their country was dull [Feb. 9]. The Irish Times devoted a eulogistic editorial to him. In fact, several letters to that paper praised his remarks as a refreshing change from the usual diplomatic twaddle. Mr. Berrington verified the old adage "Try truth. It works...
THERE ARE OTHER gramatical foibles in the tautly-worded, eight-page letter. In spelling out his opposition to earmarking. Harvard funds for a Third World center akin to those that exist at Princeton, Yale, Brown and Stanford, Bok states, "I would not attach a high priority to any project that might serve, at least symbolically, to emphasize a separation between different races. 'The phrase, "at least symbolically" springs up from the paper, providing only one example of the highly-qualified language characterizing Bok's text. Whereas Afro-Am is definitely not a "questionable field of study" nor "a political concession...
When Assistant Army Attaché James Holbrook, 41, left Moscow one day last January for a routine reconnaissance trip deep into the western Ukraine, he had no intention of partying along the way-particularly not at a bacchanal funded (and photographed) by the Soviet secret police. But just hours after arriving in the small city of Rovno (pop. 167,000), sources say, Holbrook's traveling companion-a fellow U.S. Army attaché-was drugged, and Holbrook himself obliged to fend off an incipient blackmail scheme. The uncompromised pah- returned to Moscow immediately. In keeping with U.S. procedure in such...
Holbrook, now reassigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, calls the affair "an obvious no-comment situation." But if the Soviets merely wanted to neutralize an effective military attaché, then their attempt, however clumsy, was a complete success...