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...press, as well as other interested observers, were all but lulled to sleep. As Kissinger moved from Saigon to Thailand to India, the reporters who greeted him had little to write home about. So the 2½ days that Kissinger was missing and presumed ill in Pakistan raised scarcely an eyebrow...
...bureaucrats in using the lesser degrees of classification. Most communications with foreign governments fall into the secret category. But bureaucrats have got in the habit of stamping documents secret simply to make sure that their superiors will read them They know that a confidential classification will hardly raise an eyebrow. As for unclassified material, it is all but superfluous. As often as not, it consists of the transcript of a speech that was delivered in public...
...question of whether the tower could legally be built on landfill. California's outgoing State Attorney General Thomas Lynch implied in a ruling that an office building-but not a hotel-would violate a law that limits such projects to "water-oriented uses." Cyril Magnin raised an eyebrow: "What's so much more water-oriented about a hotel than an office, except maybe you can take a bath there...
...field-grade officers (major and above)-ever develop a sustained taste for Pleiku Pink, Bleu de Hué, Cambodian-made Park Lane No. 2s, and the myriad other varieties of marijuana that have become freely available in South Viet Nam. But many other military men do. "Nobody raises an eyebrow now if someone suggests that out in the field, where the arm of military law is relatively relaxed, 90% of all noncareer G.I.s smoke grass," reports TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "It is as common as chewing gum here, and the young officers are smoking it nearly as much...
Collapsed Balcony. Most manufacturers offer waterbed guarantees, ranging from 90 days to an eyebrow-raising 50 years. Leaks are infrequent, and most beds come with repair kits similar to those used for inner tubes...