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With a little encouragement a man can bounce and juggle phrases all his life. That few do - and fewer still do well - may be the fault of formal education, which overstresses the discipline of sequential facts. Tired of such lock steps, the mind takes leaps - sometimes to fresh revelation. The pun is such a jump, but politicians, above all, should look be fore they leap. If puns are to be part of this year's political campaigns, it is to be hoped that the efforts will improve. Already Muskie's punning has begun to work up a backlash...
...operations. In order to raise badly needed cash last year, it sold off or leased some of its extensive Minneapolis property holdings, and it was able to swing a loan of $245 million from a group of 14 banks headed by Chase Manhattan only after agreeing to let Chase lock up some of a subsidiary's stock in a vault as security...
Local building ordinances specify that in apartment buildings with over four units there must be both intercom and buzzer lock systems at the main entrance. The building had no intercom system at the time of the stabbing, and the police who investigated the incident told the tenants that the locks on the windows next to the fire escape were unsafe...
...assembly-line control box shed, causing the line to shut down. Autos regularly roll off the line with slit upholstery, scratched paint, dented bodies, bent gearshift levers, cut ignition wires, and loose or missing bolts. In some cars, the trunk key is broken off right in the lock, thereby jamming it. The plant's repair lot has space for 2,000 autos, but often becomes too crowded to accept more. When that happens, as it did last week, the assembly line is stopped and workers are sent home payless...
...hard, and when to leave well enough alone. It's called "Balance". Third, he's a better writer than even the smoothest of the slick mags' stable. His style is extremely personal: mostly wryly clever, but sometimes almost lyrical. And it moves as cleanly as a well-oiled trip-lock...