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...Environmental Protection Agency might be called on to inspect candidates' home furnaces. Or the FBI would have to run a fingerprint check. The Pentagon would then attest to the validity of the candidate's Good Conduct Medal. All of this public reassurance, of course, to be financed by the public...
...anyone not privy to the CIA'S files, it is difficult to judge just how accurate the book is. The original manuscript was censored under the guidance of four CIA deputy directors. The CIA refuses to attest to or deny any portion of the book, and the court record is mixed on the point...
...sign at the recent Nefta-Gaz Exposition in Moscow [Dec. 3]: the Russian for "completion" does indeed mean "orgasm" in street language. But we are nevertheless stuck with the term, as any copy of the Soviet-published English-Russian Oil Trade Dictionary will readily attest. In trade jargon like ours, which is fraught with such unpedigreed English phrases as "mating parts," "male and female threads," "bastard connections" and "nogo nipples," perhaps your comment on our display (which received a merit award from the Soviets) was only teat...
Even non-residents attest to Helen's culinary prowess. Affixed to the wall by the cash register is a slightly crumpled napkin on which is written: "I've been a driver for 29 years and I bring my truck 40 miles out of the way to eat at Helen's every chance I get. And I'd take a longer detour...
Indeed, it would be unfortunate if the economic rivalry led to a round of imprecations and protectionism. As the Nixon Administration's difficulties with Europe amply attest, the American challenge never did lead to the political domination that the French forecast in the 1960s. Instead, the U.S. commercial migration has yielded some healthy dividends, including new management and marketing techniques. By aiming to sell to the quarter-billion people who constitute the Common Market, the hard-hustling Japanese are likely to have a bracing impact as well on Europe's business...