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...Arnheiter affair and technological bobbles like the F-111 have further diminished public trust in the competence of military leadership. Dr. Daniel Fink, a former Pentagon engineer, who has frequently debated on the pro side of ABM, worries about "the belief that these decisions are made by fat, cigar-chewing generals laughing among themselves about billions of dol lars and megadeaths...
...over and over again: "My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"), Grant decided he could do no more, went to bed and within minutes was sleeping like a baby. Catton gives another glimpse of this side of Grant's nature by comparing the way he and Sherman smoked cigars: "Grant liked to lean back, taking his ease, smoking meditatively, enjoying it; Sherman got at it with energy, `as if it were a duty to be finished in the shortest imaginable time,' destroying his cigar as rapidly as possible...
...didn't like the Boston Garden last Tuesday night. I thought I would. But I didn't like the smell of the old wooden floor that is rotting from years of Coke, popcorn, cigar butts, and spittle...
...passenger's dream as well. Gone is the claustrophobic feeling of riding in a cigar tube. The plane's fuselage is 231 feet long and as tall as a two-story building; the interior cabin is almost twice as wide as that of the Boeing 707 (see diagram). Each airline will be free to deck out the passenger cabin as it pleases. In most versions, seats will be 10% wider than those in the current jets. In economy class, there will be rows of nine seats separated by two aisles to form a two-four-three seating pattern...
...vest open, his bow tie flaring and his Havana cigar lit, Insurance Executive W. Clement Stone scrunches down in his high-backed chair at his company's nondescript headquarters on Chicago's North Side. "Wealth is power," he proclaims. "Wealth is good. With money you can do good-your whole horizon changes...