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Army personnel will be asked to keep an eye out for suspicious incidents, including colleagues who claim to be taking short trips within the U.S. but who return with foreign currency, those who brag about working with classified data and strangers who ask for base telephone listings. The Army concedes that no spies were caught during the system's testing period; indeed, the Army has not had a major espionage case in recent years. "We're trying to maintain this record," says Lieut. Colonel Richard Holk, a spokesman for the Army's Intelligence and Security Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Dialing For Spies | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...time to turn off Vermont's Interstate 91 into White River Junction. White River is an old railroad town and, as some old-timers brag, an old bootlegging town, an old red-light town. Those glories are long gone, and just now it is simply an old town, at the confluence of the White and Connecticut rivers. The surrounding country is some of the handsomest in New England, but there is a scuffling, head-down quality to South Main Street, out by the Legion hall. It is just the place for a brewery, though the last of the old breweries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Making Beer the Old-Fashioned Way | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

That's not much to brag about. But it's about all the Reagan Administration has. The Administration apparently believes the American people will forgive zealousness more readily than thievery...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Of Bandits and Zealots | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

...Drew's roommate Peter L. Rukeyser '90 says, "We have to brag...

Author: By Mei LIN Kwan-gett, | Title: From Breeding Goats to Taking Notes | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

...Juice," which tasted like a martini, from an ornate pitcher. When I told a Club member that I might miss an event to keep a date with my long-distance girlfriend, he warned that the Club would frown upon an "unmanly excuse." Later I listened to two members brag about their liasons with various women...

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: Breaking With Family, Still Manly | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

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