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...money by siphoning gasoline from their tanks and selling it. Soldiers set up roadblocks to exact a few rupiahs from every passing vehicle. Schools are supposedly free, but teachers expect donations of money or rice from their students. At ports, longshoremen and police openly loot incoming cargoes; one favorite ploy is to remove the vital parts of imported machinery and sell them back to their desperate owners shortly after delivery...
Though every word rang true emotionally and intellectually, McNamara's speech struck cynics as a public-relations ploy to replace the celebrated ice water in his veins with good old O positive blood, the universal type. The depth-and warmth-of his message even triggered talk that he might be presenting his public credentials for Secretary of State...
...expense account (Paris starting point: royal suite at the Hotel George V, which goes for $100 a day). Four books tell parents how to travel with their children without losing their minds-or their children. Two books tell girls how to catch a man in Europe (one ploy: look helpless). Two others tell men where to find "emancipated" girls. The advice is flexible; one guide tells the girls to travel first class, because that's where the interesting men are, while another book tells the men to travel tourist, because that's where the interested girls...
Ironically, it was East Germany's Red boss, Walter Ulbricht, 72, who inadvertently touched off the outburst. As a propaganda ploy, Ulbricht has for years written an annual letter to the Social Democrat Party in West Germany, piously imploring the SPD as the representative of the working class to join with his Socialist Unity Party in bringing about German reunification. Each year the Social Democrats had refused to answer the detested Ulbricht-until this year. Reflecting West Germany's new and more flexible attitude toward the Communist bloc, the Social Democrats last month fired back a reply that...
...with the troops and took risks that many of them balked at, she never lost her femininity on the battlefield. "Maggie wears mud like other women wear makeup," said an admiring G.I. In fact, she used her blonde, blue-eyed charm to get the stories she wanted, a ploy that left some of her male colleagues sputtering with rage. Angriest of all was her fellow Trib reporter Homer Bigart. "Maggie is driving Homer right into a Pulitzer Prize for the best coverage of the Korean War," said another correspondent. The two drove each other; they shared a Pulitzer...