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...promiscuous?") and marital histories, even though no studies show that either affects life spans or accident rates. The investigations are sometimes shoddy because many firms employ part-time students, off-duty policemen, housewives and retired people as probers. James Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was refused auto insurance by Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco because of phony information obtained from an elderly neighbor, who was mad at Millstone because he put up antiwar demonstrators at his home. The neighbot falsely told an investigator for O'Hanlon Reports...
Last March, Crédit Suisse belatedly decided to dispatch a special team, of investigators to Chiasso. What they found, as Chairman Aeppli delicately described it later, was that "contacts between the Chiasso branch and Texon ... were of a completely different nature than we had thought." Kuhrmeier and two assistants were arrested, along with three lawyers from next door. Crédit Suisse's then president Heinz Wuffli resigned, along with two other top company officials...
Charges that fast-food uniformity is turning the U.S. into the land of the bland should not be swallowed. A Big Mac may be a Big Mac wherever one roams, but in the interstices of the chains a Petronian diversity of foodstuffs is being sold with dispatch. On the Fourth, New Englanders will be flocking to Clam Shacks for rolls stuffed with batter-fried whole quahogs or steamers. Sightseers in Plains, Ga., will stop at the Americus outlet of McWaffles, which puts peanuts in the batter and serves "the Presidential Waffle" with a side order of peanut butter...
Secret Papers. Whatever the merits of the debate about the monarch's value, Elizabeth has worked hard at her job-traveling, appearing constantly at ceremonial openings, carefully studying the secret government papers in the red "boxes" (leather dispatch cases) that follow her wherever she goes. The seven Prime Ministers who have served her have attested to her impressive grasp of state affairs. Despite the rigid order of palace life, she has tried in small ways to make the monarchy a bit more modern socially-with her walkabouts, for example, or by substituting relatively egalitarian garden parties for the stratified...
...bald, wise-cracking New York cop specializing in homicide and a professional hater of a) crooks, b) rich crooks and c) the rich, who probably were crooks anyway or they wouldn't have so much money. Kojak would eventually solve the case in his alloted hour or so and dispatch the criminal by bullet or indictment...