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Recruiting Effort. "Grow more and waste less," he urged. "Drive less, heat less." Wearing a red-and-white lapel button reading "WIN"-for Whip Inflation Now-he called "upon every American to join in this massive mobilization and stick with it until we do win as a nation and as a people." At White House request, newspapers the next day printed an enlistment form for "inflation fighters"; the first 100,000 people to fill out the form and mail it to the White House will get a free WIN button...
With Colby's encouragement, eleven agency analysts, wearing lapel tags labeled CIA, attended the recent Chicago convention of the American Political Science Association. Explains Gary Foster, the agency's coordinator for academic relations: "We wanted to demonstrate that we are a functioning, bona fide research organization." In addition, Colby has permitted the agency's analysts to publish articles in scholarly and popular journals under their own names and CIA titles. At the same time, however, Colby has lobbied in Congress for a bill that would make unauthorized disclosures of CIA activities by past and present employees a criminal offense...
...process by which airborne fiber levels are measured is, unfortunately, enormously time-consuming. It requires the use of a complex air pumping device which, attached to a worker's belt, draws air through a hose connected to a filter pinned to his lapel. But even if measurement is taken over a two or three-hour period, it may not reflect the full extent of contamination, since the most dense exposure may occur only once a day or less when the substance is poured from shipping sacks into mixing bins, for example, generating huge plumes of dust...
Small Potatoes. Then it was the turn of Maurice Stans. Wearing a tiny American flag in his lapel, Stans told of his boyhood in Shakopee, Minn., where his father had been a struggling house painter and the family did not have indoor plumbing. Stans recalled that he had slept under the rafters on the unfinished second floor of the house and "when it was below zero outside, it was below zero inside." Stans went on to become a millionaire accountant and Nixon's chief fund raiser; in 1972 alone, he added $55 million to the President's campaign...
...Very well." Our reassured client leaned forward in his seat, fingering a curious device in his lapel that resembled nothing so much as an American flag. "You know about the taped conversation between the Head of State and one of his former advisers. You know that the erasures were done not once but from five to nine times...