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Hoffa's style resonates--Overdrive magazine reports that 83 per cent of the truckers responding to a poll favored Hoffa's return to the Teamsters' general presidency. His rough fidelity is returned in kind: while in prison, truckers making deliveries to the Lewisburg pen drove past his cell window and shouted manly encouragement. Hoffa's other obsession--the crusade against Frank Fitzsimmons, his handpicked successor as Teamsters' head--is not only the product of a power-mad boss, but the outraged sense of a regular guy whose wife has been raped by his best friend...
...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...
Murder Instrument. Church called the pistol "a murder instrument that's about as efficient as you can get." The agency has also developed two other dart-launching pistols, as well as a fountain pen that can fire deadly darts and an automobile engine-head bolt that releases a toxic substance when heated...
Alternative remedies to the problem of inflation in an underemployed economy are brushed aside with a few strokes of the pen. Keynesian faith in fiscal (tax-and-spending) policy to end recessions and damp down inflations is questioned in a chapter titled "The New Economics at High Noon." Galbraith argues that the reluctance of governments to raise taxes or cut spending during booms proves "the fatal inelasticity of the Keynesian system." Monetary policy is dismissed as "a perverse and unpredictable lever" and Economist Milton Friedman's carefully documented thesis that rapid expansion of a nation's money supply...
Galley Slave. Sand's professional labors were at least as arduous as her love life. Like Balzac, Dickens and Dostoyevsky, she was one of the galley slaves of 19th century literature, constantly trying to keep one pen stroke ahead of her creditors. The result was some 60 novels, 25 plays, an autobiography and enough miscellaneous essays to fill a dozen bulging volumes. Her correspondence, which is still being uncovered, promises to fill another 25 volumes. An impassioned propagandist for the romantic movement, she used her writing to champion political as well as sexual revolution...