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Lefkowitz aimed cautiously, and smiled with satisfaction as the eight-ball disappeared into the side pocket. As he paused for his new challenger to rack the balls, I lit up a cigarette. "Don't you ever worry before you smoke a cigarette that it may do something to you?" he asked. "I'm always a little afraid it will alter my senses, put me a little bit out of control. For years I had this shaky bow arm. All I did was worry about whether I could ever pull a smooth bow. I was terrified that I would never...
Naturally that lucky salesman did not pocket his entire commission; more than half of it had to be distributed as "gratuities" to the officials in the purchasing country who had smoothed the way for the deal. By and large, weapons these days are sold like any other manufactured product: in straightforward boardroom deals that have been scrutinized by lawyers and checked thoroughly by accountants, and are supervised carefully by government agencies. Where there is keen competition among several suppliers, however, some arms companies try a little harder. "Graft fuels almost every arms transaction," admits a veteran European arms trader...
Packaging is one of the small degradations of Western life. The impenetrable plastic pocket sealing in 290 worth of panhead screws, the jumbo detergent carton, the Vegas Rococo embossed vinyl "presentation" box around a new pen, apart from brown-paper bags (of which, in any case, we use too many) -it is hardly possible to go into the corner shop and find a package that is not ugly or delusive or frustrating or wasteful, or all four. That is why the Japan Society's current exhibition in New York, "Tsutsumu-the Art of Japanese Packaging," should not be missed...
...ground or in low vegetation in the university's biological preserve at Gainesville, Lloyd watched male fireflies on the wing emitting light signals. These varied in number, rate and duration from one species to another, as did the responses of the females perched on shrubbery below. Using a pocket flashlight, Lloyd learned to imitate the signals of various species. He soon discovered that when he gave the mating flash of a male Photinus, a female Photuris sometimes responded. When Lloyd switched signals, flashing the mating pattern of a different male species, the versatile female Photuris often began to mimic...
Consumers were hardly mollified by the tax rebate. Said Jean Patton, a management consultant for Polaroid Corp.: "It seems the President is just taking out of one pocket and putting it in the other." Judy Elliott, a restaurant owner in Hartford, agreed: "There are 10,000 people around here who have had their heat cut off because they can't pay. What good is a tax cut when they can't heat their homes...