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Smith was not the first to catch glimmerings of the potential power of a free economy. Some scholars argue that he did no more than pin down and define the rationalist, antiauthoritarian ideas that were in the air 200 years ago. But Smith did that with such mastery that he produced the world's first complete and coherent theory of economic behavior, establishing the starting point for all subsequent capitalist thought...
Trying to pin down who was ultimately responsible for the CIA'S assassination plans, Church's committee has persuaded the Ford Administration to let it examine top-level White House and National Security Council files. After studying the data, Church plans to call as witnesses such key figures of the Kennedy Administration as McGeorge Bundy, Walter Rostow and Robert McNamara. In addition, both Church's committee and the recently reorganized House Select Committee on Intelligence are interested in learning what control Secretary of State Henry Kissinger may have exercised over the CIA'S more recent clandestine...
Sharp's idea of transmitting this hard-to-pin-down moral environment is to write in punchlines that don't follow: and while Hackman's Moseby is asking incessant questions in his quest his subjects usually answer in strange, unhelpful ways. Sharp has rigged it, inevitably, so the women in the story are the most mysteriously evasive--when there are three or four of these mermaids tossing their hair the technique becomes sexist and tiresome. Worse yet are the strivings for novelistic originality. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" asks a character out of the blue. "Why?" queries Hackman...
...Paris in 1910 and 1966). From Minneapolis, where the company had concluded its spring tour the night before, two planes flew over the Arctic Circle to Tokyo. One was a cargo jet holding 48,000 Ibs. of musical instruments, wardrobe trunks, props, makeup kits, shoes, nails, hammers and extra pin wire to hold the sets together. The other was a Boeing 747 carrying soloists, choristers, dancers, musicians, technicians, managers, wives, husbands, children-and a jittery Franco Corelli, who hates...
...wore every conceivable pin...