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...Last Word. Too strict a regime, and au pairs like 21-year-old Penelope Fitzgerald, out of Ireland and now in Rome, rebel: "No one wants to be ordered around while Signora does her nails." Too lax a hand, and a goodly proportion end up more literally in the family way than the family had in mind. It was, in fact, the regular, annual arrival of 150 or so au pairs upon the doorstep of Britain's National Council for Unmarried Mothers that recently got the Home Office to issue a free pamphlet offering concisely stated advice in seven...
...Ready Rifleman. But the Secret Service had long since started taking corrective measures against the lax habits for which it was criticized by the Warren Commission...
...Twistboard. At about 11:30 p.m., Ruby was on the third floor of the Dallas Police Department, saying that he was a translator for the Israeli press. Amid the appallingly lax security, he was present at a frenzied midnight press conference with Oswald, finally left for radio station KLIF, where he parceled out his sandwiches and pop among staffers...
What is not secret is that Soviet gold mining has been plagued for years by thievery-even though trafficking in gold is a capital offense in Russia. When guards were posted and a fence erected around one Siberian mine, production immediately rose 25%. Lax discipline in the mines prompted the Communist Party's Central Committee a few months ago to call on the miners to "exceed output goals and reduce production costs." The exhortation reflected the Soviet Union's growing recognition that so long as Russian agriculture remains disjointed and inefficient, the country's surest breadbasket...
...fast skating and solid checking continued throughout the period. Accurate St. Lawrence passes and an only-occasionally lax Harvard defense forced Crimson goalie Brandy Sweitzer to come up with several brilliant saves. Harvard had some more near-misses of its own--Baldy Smith hit a post and Barry Treadwell aid the puck just inches beyond an open corner of the Larry...