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...Washington, he said, "there are eleven internal audit groups, including one attached to the office of the Secretary...
Each of these groups reports to the head of its own agency. These audit groups have no authority and little interest in anything that transpires outside their own narrow assignments." Two separate investigations of Estes went on simultaneously for weeks without either group's knowing that the other was tilling the same field...
...only place it's going is somewhere up in the Agriculture Department." Said Jackson: "Everybody thought he was such a Christian gentleman, and with his wide reputation, I made the mistake of believing him." After adding a mild warning that he had not made a complete audit of Estes' holdings, Jackson obediently put the statement on his stationery, sent it back to Estes-and a week later got a check for $6,000. After Estes was arrested, Jackson destroyed his copies of the balance sheet at the request of one of Billie Sol's men. Said Jackson...
...Freshman Jubilee deficit crept past the $1400 mark last night as the audit books entered its final stages. The final responsibility for taking in this will now apparently have to lie with the Freshman Dean's office...
...setting of course, helps make this pulp intriguing: your room. Elsie's. The Brattle. And where else could you audit such courses as Comp. Lit 248, Modern Forms of Ambiguity, in which "we shall consider how the trends, first synthesized in Dostoevsky, later developed separately by Conrad, Gido, Joyce, and Proust, finally became re-integrated again in the novels of William Faulkner." That might not be great satire, but at least it sounds familiar...