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...four, who will relay reports of abuses to Ford and the U.S. Attorney General for disciplinary action or even prosecution. The board does not yet have a name. One aide suggested the Foreign Intelligence Board, but Ford smiled and said no because it would become known by its initials, FIB. Besides, the name would be too similar to that of the existing Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which serves primarily as a liaison between the intelligence community and private industry...
...wrestle our attention from the stagehands as they clear up the debris from the previous scene, Robert Larsen can demonstrate his ability, Peer, based on a folk hero, is an yarn-spinner and boaster, and Larsen is an excellent story-teller. From the opening scene, with Peer's fib of riding astride a reindeer-buck. Larsen reveals astounding acrobatic ability, vocal control, and stage presence, lending greater weight to Ibsen's lyrical verse. His versatility becomes apparent as his mood and expression age with Peer, who bears the scars of a weather-beaten, lonely old wanderer...
Martin Bormann delivers the first of his Godkin lectures on foreign policy, "The Big Fib." Forty-five thousand NAM protesters, chanting "Martin Bormann, we're no fools: we know Nazis are fascist tools," picket peacefully, three blocks away...
Pinocchio's nose grew longer with each fib. Howard's merely twitches in private glee at each deception. Up to this point, Douglass Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, The Good Life) has created an amusing if implausible scoundrel and a book that makes suitable summer reading on those winter flights to Miami or points south. The problem with Howard's Bag is how to teach an old gimmick new tricks. With preposterous ease, Howard's truth-loving new secretary catches on to his secret and converts him to her own uncomfortable creed...
...light mood, Australians did a little coining of their own. The 20 piece, which has Queen Elizabeth's profile on one side and a frilled-neck Australian lizard on the other, was nicknamed "the Twin Lizzie." The 100 piece, imprinted with the Australian lyrebird, was called "the fib." The 200 piece, which features a waterlogged-looking platypus, became "the Holt"-after Prime Minister Harold Holt, an avid beach enthusiast...