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...confusing and even eerie when one generation that has encouraged youthful rebels-the cavaliers of the counterculture-stares back and sees . . . little roundheads closing fast. An exaggeration, no doubt. But it is engaging to think that a new breed of rebellious young may soon be seen behind the boiler, sipping martinis and mocking their pothead parents...
...been registered to them in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record." The little-known, 16-mile labyrinthine tunnel network in Washington is practically a New World version of the sewers of Paris?and potentially equally useful to an American maquisard. The steam ducts radiate from three key boiler plants in Georgetown, on Capitol Hill and near the Pentagon; on a recent recommendation from the FBI, all official maps of the tunnel system have been classified and access to most of the tunnels has been cut off to all but a carefully cleared...
Attacking the seniority system is the present preoccupation of Common Cause volunteers, who nightly man a 14-telephone "boiler room" in their M Street offices in downtown Washington. The volunteers telephone important Common Cause members around the U.S., asking them to put pressure on their Senators and Representatives for reform. If a member has special clout, Cause may arrange for him to come to Washington, usually at his own expense, to talk to the capital's movers and shakers. The seniority question now has priority because the crucial chance for immediate change will come when the 92nd Congress convenes...
Boyle drew his inferences from several new points established at the inquest. One was that Kennedy visited the island a few hours before the party, which was attended by the six "boiler-room girls" from Bobby Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign and five of Ted's men friends. The testimony made it clear that Kennedy that day crossed Dike Bridge twice and traveled the ferry road three times; the implication was that he was not unfamiliar with the geography...
...system is so precise that the sniffers can detect a single polluting smokestack almost four miles from a sensor. Officials at Shell's giant refinery in Rotterdam recently received a call asking them why the plant's No. 4 boiler was burning oil with an unusually high sulfur content. As it turned out, Shell had run out of cleaner fuel-and wrongly figured that its burn would pass unnoticed in Rotterdam's smoggy...