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According to the Federal Register, the job calls for someone to "review existing mechanisms of consumer input, thruput and output" as part of a plan to "confirm and reinforce the [State] Department's sensitivity to consumer rights ... with respect to the maintenance and expansion of an international dialogue and awareness...
...some of Kennedy's closest male friends to send willing young women to the White House. One newspaper columnist was once overheard telling a smashing brunette how to get into the mansion with a note that he wanted delivered to Kennedy. Kennedy later called the columnist back to confirm: "I got your message-both of them." Secret Service agents would pass such casual women under presidential instructions, although they worried about it. More frequent visitors, including a number of airline stewardesses, underwent full Secret Service investigations...
However, last night the Associated Press reported Restic as saying, "I'm not a candidate for anything. I just take things as they come," adding, "I won't confirm or deny any rumors because I'm not responsible for them...
...Legend Confirmed. "The greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." That sounds like Richard Nixon's blurt on the Apollo 11 moon landing, but it was written in the 16th century by a Spaniard named Lopez de Gomara, after men knew Christopher Columbus had found not Cathay but a wholly new "fourth part of the earth." For centuries, fabled islands populated by demigods, monsters or Arcadians had been part of the imagery of European legend, and the discovery of the South American Indian-lolling in a hammock, innocent...
...Stanley Kubrick. In it, he demonstrates the qualities that eluded Thackeray: singularity of vision, mature mastery of his medium, near-reckless courage in asserting through this work a claim not just to the distinction critics have already granted him but to greatness that time alone can-and probably will -confirm...