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...swiftly sent home. The other two, United Nations Employees Rudolf Chernyayev and Valdik Enger, were indicted by a grand jury on charges of passing U.S. Navy secrets and jailed with the unusually high bail of $2 million each. FBI leaks to the press ridiculed the agents as ham-fisted operatives who had been caught with an orange-juice carton full of phony antisubmarine warfare documents that had been prepared for them by the feds...
...table. It turns out that the train does serve wine, but "it's all twist-top," the steward explains. Smoking is banned in the dining car. Both breakfast servings produce perfectly cooked eggs any-style with a choice of grits and cream gravy, sausage, bacon, hash, broiled ham and, as a post-Atlantan flourish, exemplary French toast. All food is cooked on big old stoves fired by Presto Logs...
...anyone who got into trouble. The contestants had to wear life jackets; helmets were optional. To keep warm in the splash of 38° F. water, many also donned black rubber wet suits similar to those used by scuba divers. To keep track of all the confusion, local ham operators broadcast messages up and down the course...
Hugh Sidey's bewailing the Carter Administration's lack of "class" [March 6] bewildered me. Typical it was, however, of today's obsession with form over essence. I'll allow Ham Jordan his pyramidal fantasies if he and his "classless" Georgians spare us from an international faux pas as calamitous as the Viet Nam one. Enough of the Best and Brightest...
Pipe arguments are the equivalent of pipe dreams. The farther they wander from probabilities, the more fun and fury they produce. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear were experts at such arguments: Is too much energy being wasted transporting ham and bacon from farm to dinner table? How pleasurable to insist that pigs must fly. Author Jerry Mander's treatise offers precisely this kind of joyous irresponsibility. The world knows that the megabucks technology of television is not, repeat not, going to be eliminated. On his final page, Mander himself acknowledges that he has no idea...