Word: bunkerism
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...opening up opportunities. But the more rigidly quotas are imposed in a minority's behalf, the more risk there is of transferring to other groups that invaluable but intangible advantage in the equality argument-the sense of being unfairly treated. Richard Nixon, George Wallace and Archie Bunker are scholars of the subject...
...items were soybeans and wheat; this year the fastest action is in sugar and metals. On the Chicago Board of Trade, Dealer Larry Blum says, "silver was going up in a day as much as it ordinarily does in a year." The biggest silver speculator is Dallas Centimillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, who has used his petro-wealth to buy millions of dollars worth of future contracts for silver. Unlike most commodities gamblers, Hunt has accepted delivery on some of the metal, which he apparently intends to hoard until the price goes higher...
Screen Rights. Counterfeiter Pat Yim (serving three years) sold four proposed TV sketches to Hawaii Five-O, one of which has been used as the basis for an episode. Bank Robber Edward Bunker (doing five years) recently sold the screen rights to his first novel, No Beast So Fierce, to Actor Dustin Hoffman for $80,000. Bonanno had a piece on prison life on the New York Times's Op-Ed page and has sold a story to Tennis magazine. Bank Robber Hank Garrison (now serving a ten-year term) just sold a story to Stag magazine...
This computerized efficiency extends to the cattle themselves. When a hundred cattle are feeding at a bunker, one can detect no more than an inch or so of variation in the height of their identical-looking rumps. Uniformity is only partly the result of breeding. More important than genetics are the skillful methods used to turn every calf into a 1,100-lb., slightly blocky steer that will yield USDA Choice Grade Beef. The object is to remove as many variables from the beef-raising process as possible and replace them with more stable techniques copied from the assembly line...
...political target. Saigon is a political target. Their goal of a 'third Viet Nam' [a separate Communist state in the South] is very real." Although his sector is seemingly quiet, the war is real here too. Noting the endless rolls of concertina wire surrounding the Trung Ngan bunker, I ask: "General, what are you going to do with all that barbed wire when the war is over?" Nghi smiles thinly. "You tell me when the war will be over and I'll tell you what we'll do with the barbed wire...