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...mild-mannered accountant found it childishly easy. One of the company's suppliers was Marcel et Cie. When Marcel Ermacora typed out their checks, he banged hard on the "Marcel," holding back on the "et Cie." When the checks were returned with a company official's signature for payment, he merely typed his last name in and ran laughing all the way to the bank. It was the firm's bank that noticed the ever-mounting number of checks made out to him for large amounts. Realizing the firm was on to something, he fled the scene...
...None of your petty plots will work," one senior assured a covey of mild acquaintances. "We're all just as competitive and aggressive...
...blasting was a mild way of describing the explosion that rocked the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan last week. Civil war was a more apt description of the battle that had erupted only hours before JY-one came on the air. Savage street battles raged in Amman between Hussein's army and the fedayeen ("men of sacrifice") of the Palestine guerrilla organizations. While the capital's 600,000 residents hid in terror, armored vehicles rumbled up and down the streets, swinging their turrets to counter small-arms fire from nearby buildings. Swiftly, the fighting spread from Amman to other parts...
Ford was hospitalized a few days later for a mild stroke, but recovered completely before the end of the year...
Officially the U.S. still views the colonels with mild distaste and exerts gentle pressure on them to return to some semblance of democracy. But the Greek regime now seems certain to get those tanks sooner or later-and probably sooner. A team of U.S. civilian and military advisers headed by G. Warren Nutter, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, flew into Athens last week for two days of talks with Papadopoulos and other officials. Nutter, who is the highest-ranking U.S. emissary to visit Greece since the 1967 soup, was mainly interested in Greece's posture...