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According to Bostonian Robert G. Gordon '60, founder and head of the Store 24, Inc., "It just seemed normal not to be politically active. The world seemed to be the way it was regardless of what we did. There didn't appear to be things to get passionately involved...
...course of a few days on the job as an investigative reporter for a Los Angeles daily, Irwin Fletcher (Chevy Chase) presents himself to various sources as G. Gordon Liddy, Harry S. Truman, Igor Stravinsky, Don Corleone and Arnold Babar (as in the elephant). He also makes up a few monikers: Mr. Poon from the SEC, for example, and John Coctosea ("it's Scotch-Rumanian"). Sometimes he does not bother with name-dropping; he just gets a false beard or teeth from the novelty store and skips blithely into and out of trouble...
Just as qualifying trials began for next week's Indianapolis 500, the illustrious class of 1965 lost Gordon Johncock, a two-time winner. His car was ready: it had been running near the front at over 210 m.p.h. But the driver was out of tune and time. "That morning I lay there in bed thinking about everything. All of a sudden I sat up and said, 'That's it for me.' " Mario Andretti, a classmate present later at Johncock's valedictory press conference, called his friend's retirement "clever," an odd word. "I've always thought of race-car drivers...
...criticized by members of Congress, and an analyst in the Justice Department claimed that the work could be done for $60,000. The narrower, but almost as costly, project was recently approved by the department. "We don't need a study to determine that child pornography is bad," says Gordon Raley of the Child Welfare League. "We could use some assistance in doing something about...
...Viet Nam staged last week's celebrations with the American press, especially the networks, very much in mind. When NBC News Vice President Gordon Manning approached Hanoi officials a year ago about beaming live satellite reports back to the U.S. to mark the fall of Saigon, he found looks of surprise. "They kept saying that the 40th anniversary of the Vietnamese Communist Party's independence day (Sept. 2) would be important," said Manning. "The tenth anniversary was nothing." Network executives acknowledge that the Vietnamese built up the April 30 parade into an extravaganza of 10,000 marchers...