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...after L.B.J.'s presidency was capsized, Rusk withdrew further into his privacy. To have been Secretary of State was, for him, an honor without profit. Almost none of the bountiful lecturer's fees and foundation posts that have rewarded other public servants descended on him. His checkbook was almost depleted when he left the State Department, and it is probably thinner now. When a Rockefeller Foundation grant he received last year ran out, Rusk accepted a new job as professor of international law at the University of Georgia...
Crap Game. Undaunted, companies go right on turning out new products. Last week Honeywell introduced a $10,600 "kitchen computer" programmed to help the U.S. housewife plan her meals and balance her checkbook. Though Honeywell might sell some to millionaires who have everything, the product could be the precursor of much cheaper small computers for the home; other companies are already working on the idea. Singer recently announced that its Friden office-equipment division will bring out at least one new product a month for the next year. "Developing new products is like a gigantic crap game," says Boone Gross...
...walked through the store, John was followed every step of the way by closed-circuit TV cameras that transmitted his image to a monitoring room upstairs. He found the Protectalarm, pulled out his checkbook, and waited patiently while a new clerk figured out how to work the still camera that photographed every customer paying by check. In her confusion, the clerk wrapped the package without first removing the tags. One of them was a wafer, specially radiated to set off a Knogo sonic alarm in the doorway of the store. John had barely reached the sidewalk when he was surrounded...
Civilized Fun. One man who comes through the door is a wealthy widower of 45 who seems a highly appropriate match for Julie, but falls head over checkbook in love with Julie's pregnant daughter. Sighs Julie: "Now she'll never graduate from Dalton"-a New York joke about a Manhattan private school, the kind of local allusion with which the show is peppered. To complete the May-October calendar of love, Julie says "I do" to guess...
...realize that you would like to have us become contributors to your campaign," Mott wrote to Humphrey, "but you should not expect an immediate decision from any of us checkbook-in-hand. We will each make our own individual judgments on the basis of how you answer our questions and how you conduct your campaign in the coming weeks...