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...John Birch Society has been more successful than George Wallace (at least for the Society's approximately 75,000 members) at evoking the horrors of Big Government, or maybe it has just been more graphic. Instead of referring vaguely to pointy-headed pencil-pushers on the Potomac, the Birchers never miss the chance in their literature to say that endless waves of rules and regulations, paperwork, and forms to fill out are tentacles of central government reaching out to clasp Americans in warm, dark totalitarianism...
...Fenway frank. He was also appropriately dressed in a Bosox red sweater and navy blue pants. He did withstand the temptation to get the other items being sold, which ranged from buttons with a picture of the gold dust twins (Lynn and Rice) to a World Series pen and pencil...
...Eyebrow Pencil. She was interrogated for seven hours by the Redgraves and two other members of the W.R.P.'s central committee, who accused her of being a spy for the Special Branch (Britain's FBI). Corin added that she was "bourgeois, middle class and arrogant" besides. Gorst recalled that they made her empty her handbag and TV Producer Roy Battersby seemed particularly interested in her eyebrow pencil: "He kept peering down it as if he expected to discover a hidden microphone...
...flamboyant career-as a pencil manufacturer in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, whisky dealer, art collector and oil magnate in the U.S.-Ar-mand Hammer has probably never had a worse week. First, the 77-year-old chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp. pleaded guilty in a Washington court to a charge of making three il legal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign. Then Hammer's oil firm accused the Libyan government of holding 520 of its employees as hostages in a dispute that has turned Occidental's investment in Libya, once considered Hammer...
...your immortal soul, maaaaaan, if you have one, is words . . . Sooner or later you're all going to jail . . . All you'll have is language, the great conserver . . . Compose in your head. The time will come when you won't even be allowed a stub of pencil and the back of an envelope." There is perhaps too much doomsday in that advice, but anyone watching the world now may want to think hypothetically of stashing away in his survival kit, along with the dried foods and bottled water, a copy of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary...