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...largest manufacturing company in the world sits at a cluttered desk that is piled high with sales reports, production analyses, sheaves of magazines and a couple of dime-store signs that proclaim BLESS THIS MESS and PLEASE DON'T STRAIGHTEN THE MESS ON MY DESK! YOU'LL GOOF UP MY SYSTEM. Thomas Aquinas Murphy, 62, chairman of General Motors Corp., is a casual fellow with gray Brillo hair, thick bookkeeper's spectacles, a heap of optimism and no pretenses. From his 14th-floor corner office behind security-locked glass doors in the Gen eral Motors Building...
Robert Moore began his career as an actor, making his Broadway debut at age 19 in Jean Kerr's Jenny Kissed Me. "I'm still basically an out-of-work actor," he said. "Acting is a nice way to goof off." In 1968, he made his professional directing debut with The Boys in the Band. "I didn't really want to direct it. I was directing college theater at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and Mart Crowley, the author, was a student of mine. He had been working on the play and he brought...
...miles, all in the space of nine days). Yet even as Air Force One returned the President and his wife to Andrews Air Force Base at week's end, the gaffes were beginning to fall into proper perspective. Amused Poles were now laughing at the translation goof that seemed to have Carter saying that their desires for the future were carnal. Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell indicated a relaxed White House attitude with the crack that Carter "only lusts after Poles in his heart." Similarly, Carter's unwittingly public criticism of Desai for refusing to accept U.S. conditions...
...Therapeutic Theory. Seriously, it isn't healthy. Nobody can study all the time. You know perfectly well that you're going to goof off anyway, so why not do it right? You need a break. Go see a show, and when you get back those lectures notes might even make sense...
...expenditures and assets, that are supposed to be kept private. Though Social Security officials assured the Linowes commission that safeguards had been designed to keep the insurers from obtaining this information, a recent test of the system showed that this was not true. Security has been tightened, but the goof underscored Linowes' point that "there does not exist a means of guaranteeing complete confidentiality of data stored in a computer bank. We just don't have the technology...