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Garp himself begins in an act of highly spiced imagination. During World War II, his mother, Nurse Jenny Fields, climbs into bed with a ball-turret gunner who has been lobotomized by a piece of flak. The gunner, Technical Sergeant Garp, dies shortly afterward, leaving only the initials of rank for his son's first name. For Jenny, her one and only sexual experience is a calculated insemination consistent with her independent nature. As she writes in A Sexual Suspect, the autobiography that makes her famous, "I wanted a job and I wanted to live alone. That made...
...ceremonial photographs. So it was last week with the black-lung bill to increase benefits for disabled coal miners, and among the invited legislators was Democratic Congressman Dan Flood of Pennsylvania. For Flood, who is under investigation for numerous influence-peddling schemes, the chance for some flackery instead of flak was a godsend. Flood showed up early at the Oval Office and anchored himself behind the presidential chair. Party leaders began jostling to get the Congressman off center stage. No words were spoken. Flood, grabbing the chair tightly, would not budge...
...that it cannot get its plan through Congress without a bruising fight. It should not have much trouble replacing the Civil Service Commission, which can be accomplished by the President as long as the move is not vetoed by Congress within 60 days. But it will run into heavy flak from the Hill on the questions of veterans' preference and merit pay, which require legislation. Every major veterans' group in the nation can be counted on to mobilize against the change. The Government employees' unions will put up sim ilar resistance to the merit-pay proposal...
...surrounding community. Moulton ended his 15-year Harvard career, which began when he was deputy director of the Department of Buildings and Grounds, to join the Boston real estate firm of Merideth and Grew. President Bok praised Moulton's "heroic service for many years;" Moulton, who frequently took flak from opponents of Harvard's building expansion program, did not discuss his reasons for leaving...
...happily last week. That was after being told by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan that his department was guilty of "dumb insolence" before the Congress, that it had a tradition of "obfuscation, frequently lying, but in any case avoidance of the issue." But so much for one day's flak. The very next morning he was at the White House with seven key members of Congress announcing the new college-aid proposals, and Kentucky's Carl Perkins clapped him soundly on the back and declared, "I think he is one of our greatest men in Government today...