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...this month, all the world knows about this sultry young woman. Timing the "leak" perfectly with the birth of Prince William, future King of England, CBS let slip that it will air a feature film later this year entitled Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance: Shooting has begun on what will surely be a landmark in modern movie-making. The twentieth century fairy-tale-come-true, captured for all America in prime time, maybe on cable someday. And who will star as Diana, the shy kindergarten teacher-turned-princess and proud mother? None other than Catherine Oxenberg...
Damaging information can leak out of any part of a company, from the mail-room to the executive suite. The motive for some informants is money, while for others it may be a desire for revenge. "That former vice president can really zap you," says Industrial Espionage Expert Bequai. Computer programmers are particularly rich sources of secrets because they handle massive amounts of data. Salesmen also spread tidbits as they make their rounds, gossiping and exchanging news...
...modern economy is not just a dismal saga of inflation though. The S.M.A.P. can also remember when the first ball-point pens came on the market for $12.50. No longer, said the ads, could ink leak from your fountain pen and ruin your new shirt. The S.M.A.P. had in those days a rich friend who spent $52 on the Fritz Busch performance of The Marriage of Figaro (on 17 breakable records); that version, one of half a dozen, now costs $18. When the S.M.A.P. first went to Europe in 1946, the only way he could find to get there...
...this month all the world knows about this sultry young woman. Timing the "leak" perfectly with the birth of Prince William, future King of England. CBS let slip that it will air a feature film later this year entitled Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance. Shooting has begun on what will surely be a landmark in modern movie-making. The twentieth century fairy-tale come true, captured for all America in prime time, maybe on cable someday. And who will star as Diana, the shy kindergarten teacher-turned-princess and proud mother? None other than Catherine Oxenburg...
...candid. Candor won out, with a rebuke to her questioners and the press that was all the more effective for not being heated: "I don't think one could have a good government in which everyone agreed with everybody about everything ... the problem occurs when disagreements about policy leak into the press as disagreements among people... we have a kind of movie-magazine approach to the discussion of policy differences." She seemed to be saying that the press, in its superficial way, was missing the real story: policy differences between her and Haig are real and deep. "Furthermore...