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...Exchange Commission regulates securities transactions. He also believes that most functions of philanthropy should be taken over by the Government. Few taxpayers will agree that the U.S. needs another bureaucracy or more federal spending. For all the book's flaws, anyone who has the stamina and sharp eyesight to get through 459 pages closely set in tiny type will rightly demand to know more about what his favorite charity is doing with his hard-earned dollars before he writes another check...
...glad I'm not a cop there. What is the next limit on police power? Could it be the seven-power binoculars I use on robbery and burglary stakeouts? Is the day coming when the courts will deny eyeglasses to policemen with poor eyesight because technology is improving their vision? If so, then justice is indeed blind...
Deutsch volunteered to fight for America during World War II but was rejected because of his poor eyesight. Instead, he worked for the U.S. State Department for two years in the Office of Strategic Services, using his fluency in English. Czech, German, and French, his reading knowledge of Latin, and his general understanding of Spanish and Russian for OSS intelligence analysis...
...with a single punch and is induced to abandon his quest for a night-school law degree in order to enter the square circle (about the only cliche not to be heard in the script), in order to earn money for an operation to save his sister's eyesight. "You'll be on the next train to Vienna,'' he tells her, his dimness about geography matching his dimness about the fast women and corrupting mobsters he meets on his rise to the top. Aided by his gruff but honest manager (George C. Scott), his faithful second...
...have much effect on soaring player contracts' (Henry has reportedly told NASL team owners that, "Lower salaries are at hand."). Sources in Washington, however, note that high positions in the NASL have often been viewed as stepping-stones to the U.S. Senate (admittedly only by people with extremely poor eyesight), and speculate that Henry might be trying to shore up his American sportsman image before challenging New York Sen. Jacob Javits (a jai-alai player and sky diver of little note). More on the mark, though, are those who note that along with Henry's non-paying new job came...