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...here's another tip for anyone contemplating the old stop-sign prank: don't do the sign removing yourself. Call yourself Superior Sign Relocation Inc., and hire others to do the manual labor so you can always point proudly to your contribution as a pillar of the economy and a creator of jobs. And if you wonder how you'll make the money to meet payroll, that's easy: you'll sell the purloined signs, of course, to the millions of homeowners who, like so many of my law-abiding, homeowning neighbors, favor them as decorations for their basement...
While change makes people uneasy, prosperity makes them adventurous. Highway 50's towns are settled and unsettled by the heirs of the Forty-Niners, the newly liberated telecommuters and mutual-fund-toting retirees and boat people homesteading in Garden City, Kans., writing a Vietnamese-language instruction manual for Windows 95 and declaring with a smile, "We are searching for freedom"--delighted by both the cliche and the profound truth behind...
...only a few blocks from his new condo in Red Bank. Sure, he's invested his profits in buying the local comic-book store. And sure, he claims that moviemaking--especially with his girlfriend as leading lady and a close buddy as producer--is "an easy way to avoid manual labor." But what about the pressure of writing the script for Warner Bros.' big-budget Superman Lives? "I got $325,000 and six weeks to do it," he says. "But I procrastinated, so I had to write it in a week." He is developing a TV series. His next film...
...soldiers of different rank is not harmful, and usually not improper." On the Navy's first coed carrier to include servicewomen, the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, couples who confessed their love to the captain quietly received new assignments, without repercussion. The Air Force takes a different attitude. Although a manual allows that a marriage between an officer and enlisted person "is not, by itself evidence of misconduct," it reserves the right to take punitive action "based on prior fraternization...
...only British Prime Minister to learn electioneering from an American President: "[Harold] Wilson brought a transatlantic zeal to the election campaign. His Bible was Theodore H. White's The Making of the President, his bedside reading the speeches of John F. Kennedy, his handbook Larry O'Brien's campaign manual. As he crisscrossed the country, he studded each of his orations with at least one Kennedy idea or phrase...Labor's election manifesto read like the New Frontier, with its promise to get the nation moving again along 'a new way of life that will stir our hearts, rekindle...