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...Karate Chop. Get Smart! began as a product of groupthink when Talent Associates saw The Man from U.N.C.L.E. rising on the ratings and shrewdly suspected that the Bondwagon had room for one more. They commissioned Old Pro Mel Brooks (The 2,000-Year-Old Man) and Young Pro Buck (TW3) Henry to hack out a script about a fumbling hero. Instead, Brooks and Henry decided to make him a bumbling zero. Brooks recalls, "I was sick of looking at all those nice sensible situation comedies. They were such distortions of life. If a maid ever took over my house like...
...sausages, hams, frankfurters and lunch meats- which account for about a third of the total market. One machine, for example, can now grind out 30,000 hot dogs an hour, all of a uniform weight and length for better cost control. Another, guided by computer punch cards, can chop up huge chunks of meat., frozen or fresh, to supply 1,000 Ibs. of meat paste every four minutes. Still others turn out smoked ham and bacon in twelve to 24 hours (v. 56 hours in the ordinary process) by electronic controls, automatically pump salt cure into ham, package bacon...
...Punjab front?three columns aimed at encircling Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city, one thrust at Sialkot, and the last struck at Karachi via the town of Gadra. The Indians hoped to force the dispersion of the smaller but better-trained and -armed Pakistani forces and then chop them up piecemeal...
...cases have been pursued more vigorously by the Justice Department than its six current antitrust suits against bank mergers, which have been growing steadily in popularity in recent years. Last week Justice dealt with two of the cases in dissimilar ways, but in both sought to chop off a major portion of recently merged banks...
...Cuban missile crisis, more venerable and more qualified commentators also have begun to sound as if Communism had quietly buried itself. Not long ago, the Manchester Guardian pronounced: "The Russians and the Americans no longer have any reason to quarrel." And there is a widespread school of chop logic that maintains simultaneously: 1) Russia can no longer be seriously regarded as a threat to the West, and 2) by its firm stand in Southeast Asia, the U.S. is inviting Russian retaliation. Both premises are debatable at best; together, they are not an argument but a plea for passivity. The danger...