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Lastly, we are alarmed by the totalitarian tone of Pasztor's letter. Pasztor was angered by Caploe's reporting of the facts. He was further angered by the use of a standard reporting ploy to gain more information than he chose to give us. He claims to have issued us a "warning." We never received his "warning," and we dismiss it. We believe in our reporting, and no self-appointed censor will intimidate us into altering it. SJP has raised the issue of free speech in defense of some dubious propositions; one of them is that a newspaper is attacking...
...were trying to cut back U.S. arms spending -and that many Americans do not share President Nixon's views on dealing with the Soviet Union. Undercutting the SALT talks and undermining U.S. foreign policy? No, said Muskie, he was simply talking as a ''private citizen." The ploy is familiar: Richard Nixon used it when he hobnobbed with world leaders on a 1967 swing, ostensibly as a lawyer representing the Reader's Digest. The fact is that there are no private citizens on presidential campaign trails. Score one for agility, not indecision...
...courtroom, alibis often tend to fall apart. A phone call to the wife pleading late work at the office, for example, is less than convincing with the noisy hilarity of a swinging singles bar audible in the background. Similarly, the hospital-visit-to-an-ailing-aunt ploy is apt to prove a dud with a boss whose receiver is also picking up the strains of a jukebox or the cries of a ballpark hot dog vendor. To prevent such pretexts from collapsing, help is finally at hand: alibi tapes...
Glut of Longhairs. Ghostwriting on a modest scale has been a campus ploy for many years. But turning the practice into big business has taken men of vision like Ward Warren, 22, a senior at Babson College near Boston. Last fall Warren sank $25,000-earned in the delicatessen and the snack bar he owns-into Termpapers Unlimited. He now says that he is close to breaking even. "The secret of my success," he says earnestly, "is that my employees really believe in what they're doing. Also, there are a lot of brilliant, long-haired people...
...fifth-grade lesson, the teacher induces jealousy by repeatedly choosing the same bright, attractive youngster to do blackboard work. When the class balks at this favoritism, the teacher admits her ploy, then tries to coax the students into conceding that they feel jealous. "It is important," says the teachers' guide, "that no one feel he is strange or wicked if he is jealous from time to time. By admitting jealousy and talking about it, children are less likely to act out their aggressive feelings...