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...Flimflam. Gaud, 60, promptly issued "rectification orders." Embarrassed AID officials started reshipping 18 crates of tool kits-which had rusted on Buenos Aires docks for nine years-to Paraguay. They also cut off aid to Vietnamese businessmen who had been accused of importing antiaircraft weapon parts only to sell them to the Viet Cong...
...humdrum courses in educational administration that many states require in order to qualify for supervisory posts. One result, concedes B. Frank Brown, the innovation-minded superintendent of Florida's Brevard County, is that many administrators are "former coaches, who get by with a pitch, a smile and flimflam." Others become mere paper-shufflers...
Political Flimflam. The Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, has spent its closed hearings until now debating not the tax proposal before it, but possibilities of paring the budget. From top Administration officials, notably Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Budget Director Charles Schultze, it received no satisfaction. Instead, Schultze taunted the committee with talk of wholesale cuts that would inevitably cripple popular programs such as health services. This the committee regarded as political flimflam. Rumors circulated of a direct offer from the White House-apparently unknown to Fowler and Schultze-to match any tax increase with...
Ramparts is slick enough to lure the unwary and bedazzled reader into accepting flimflam as fact. After boasting that the January issue would "document" that a million Vietnamese children had been killed or wounded in the war, it produced a mere juggling of highly dubious statistics and a collection of very touching pictures, some of which could have been taken in any distressed country. To drive the point home, the magazine recruited Dr. Benjamin Spock to write an emotional preface to the article. The doctor did not go to Viet Nam. In writing the preface, all that he knew...
...with the bullfights and the Prado, Spain's fabled flamenco dancing is something every tourist wants to see. What U.S. visitors seldom realize is that the "authentic" dances staged in the vast majority of Spain's "singing cafés" or tablaos 'these days are more flimflam than flamenco. To meet the demand, moaned a flamenco impresario in Madrid last week, "anybody who can wiggle his feet or snap his fingers has set up a tablao-and is cleaning up. The result is the complete breakdown of authentic flamenco. They're all dancing the way they...