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...delegates at Orly Airport; that chore has been assigned to lackluster Premier Pierre Messmer and Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann. "Everything is being done," explained a government spokesman, "to ensure that this will be strictly a working meeting," an attitude that squares with Pompidou's crisp observation that the European Economic Community has "already drunk the champagne" of British entry...
...woman are Out; the neuter "person" is In-and only the chair is allowed to linger undisturbed. Chairperson is just the latest exchange in that great linguistic bazaar where new terms are traded for old. The elderly "Mrs." and the shy "Miss" now curtsy to the crisp, swinging "Ms." "Congressone" has been suggested in federal corridors to replace the Congressman-woman stigma...
LAST DISCOVERY: In the course of a long in depth talent search, he unearthed Morris, the now famous Puss 'n Boots talking cat, and led him through a successful but rigorous audition program, which netted a huge no-cut contract for Morris and a crisp pat on the back and congratulatory "well done" for Jackson...
Despite the crisp briefing style that runs through his analysis and schedule of possible options, Farber shows some remarkable lapses in political sophistication. For example, after noting the low security precautions at the Gulf concession in Cabinda, Farber advances several of what he describes as "conspiratorial theories" to explain why the drilling and refining equipment has not been sabotaged by the liberation forces. Yet inexplicably--at a time when enormous destruction is being visited on North and South Vietnamese by the American bombing campaign--it does not occur to Farber that the guerrillas might be afraid that attacking the Gulf...
Throughout this first-quarter Crimson onslought, the BU offense could not get its wishbone attack untracked. The Harvard defense, sparked by some crisp tackling by the secondary and strong work up front by Mitch Berger and Sandy Tennant, repeatedly turned back the thrusts...