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...governorship?" Complained another: "As a taxpayer, I resent my tax money's being used to pay secret service men to accompany the Governor on his love trysts. Who was watching the shop while the Governor was pursuing his ladylove? I always thought any man who smokes a pipe was above reproach...
...depends for progress on its financial possibilities? We doubt it." The direct, sensible Falldin, as another businessman put it, was looked upon as someone "who would immediately inspire much greater trust from all quarters. " Falldin still works his 460-acre farm in central Sweden, and, with a Sherlock Holmes pipe always close at hand, presented a down-to-earth contrast to the intellectual Prime Minister...
...genial man with a large pipe who liked to gather with friends and translate Icelandic sagas, Tolkien bore all this stoically. He worked away at other books (Silmarillion and Akallabeth, tales about the creation and early history of Middle-earth, to be published posthumously). But he did point out that literal-minded folk who object to fairy stories as escapist mistake the wartime escape of the deserter (bad) for the wartime escape of the prisoner (necessary and good). Fairy tales represent the latter, Tolkien continued, and correspond to the primordial human desire-in a world of poverty, injustice and death...
Weissbecker, lighting his pipe and leaning forward in his chair, vowed that any changes would be "subtle and involve a lot of little things," stressing that "we do not intend to sacrifice quality. We're very quality-minded around here...
...steel-price requests will get much closer scrutiny. Steelmakers are asking for increases of around 5% on pipe, sheet and strip. Those raises were scheduled to go into effect two months ago but were held up by the latest price freeze. Steel executives argued at last week's hearings that the increases are needed to provide money to expand their plants. Some add privately that they can present cost data that would justify a lift of 6%. Their case was weakened by unrelated but embarrassingly timed indictments handed down by a federal grand jury, charging U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, Armco...