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...charge them for less government: a 1? increase in the general sales tax, raising it to 5? on the dollar; 5? more per pack of cigarettes, boosting it to 8? and 50? more on a gallon of liquor, to $2. Next day, a Reagan aide sent out a memorandum suggesting that state employees volunteer to work without compensation on Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays, thus saving the state-according to the Governor's arithmetic...
What had happened to the original all-A's proposal with which the faculty meeting began? Apparently, it was not intended to be a proposal. It was a memorandum circulated to departmental representatives, signed by Jeffrey Kaplow, assistant professor of history, and David Zipser, assistant professor of zoology. Shenton, by some coincidence, was the only departmental representative who did not receive a copy...
...after the resolution was circulated, Kaplow indicated to another faculty member that he had not wanted the memorandum passed around over his name. But whoever circulated it, and for whatever reason, the all-A's proposal came to the attention of Dean Truman, who decided to call a special faculty meeting to discuss...
Only Quiller Memorandum demonstrates a degree of technical imagination. The color--particularly a single purple-tinted shot of Berlin at night--and the editing manage to convey the ugliness of the spy business without being ugly themselves. Yet the generally decent quality of one spy movie cannot, amidst all the tripe, justify a whole mess of them...
...certain extent, the change in styles produced an improvement in quality. Better directors and writers were drawn to spy movies once they stopped being farcical exursions into the world of Ian Fleming. Michael Anderson directed and Harold Pinter wrote The Quiller Memorandum, easily the best of the lot. But more recently the Bond hacks have begun to get their hands in to the new field. Guy Hamilton, a hack if ever there was one, has directed Funeral in Berlin, a clumsy, convoluted, illegitimate offspring of The Ipcress File in which agent Harry Palmer, again played by Michael Caine, proves...