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Answering Cables. Kissinger has gathered an energetic, able team of aides and advisers, including Winston Lord, 36, head of his planning and coordination staff, Department Counselor Helmut Sonnenfeldt, 47, Executive Assistant Lawrence Eagleburger, 43, and Press Aide George Vest, 55. He has be gun to pluck more talent out of the State Department to augment this group. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco, 54, the longtime Middle East expert, was persuaded to back out of a college presidency (Hamilton College in upstate New York) and was promoted to the No. 3 spot, Under Secretary for Political Affairs...
...seems difficult for the University to deny RTH's charges. And although Donald Moulton, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, has stated that Harvard does not "want this to be an effort where we swoop down, pluck folks out of some place and plop them down somewhere else," the strategy of quietly pushing the displaced tenants into housing they don't want hardly seems superior...
...spiraling inflation. Heath, like Nixon in the United States, has clearly been managing his economic problems at the expense of the working classes. Heath has been determined to hold down wages, but his determination has wavered when it comes to prices. The miners, traditionally a union of radical pluck, have rejected Heath's line that the business of the nation is business and have pressed on with their demands despite Heath's vilification...
...drawing style really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open car going 50 m.p.h. or pluck the cotton wadding out of a pill bottle...
...expect big truck lines to do relatively well, because they will probably get generous supplies of diesel fuel under any rationing system. Small lines whose trucks fill up along the highway may be forced out of business as diesel fuel becomes harder to find. The big lines, then, might pluck the most profitable contracts of the little lines that go under...