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...miraculous ability to tell it | ludicrously. She seems to emulate a process she admiringly ascribes to Dr. Christian: "to ruminate some particularly knotty concept into smooth mental paste." Hence the cascade of cliches, many per page and even paragraph. An adviser tells the President: "It's a hot potato, none hotter. We may be biting off more than we can chew." The "cool lustrous brain" of Judith Carriol manifests itself dimly: "The less people involved, the better," or, "If there is any reason in the world why you are where you are and who you are on this...
...microchips mix with potato chips? Do electric typewriters go well with pasta? Will photocopiers blend with hamburgers? Far from being a recipe for corporate indigestion, this is just the kind of formula favored by Carlo De Benedetti, 50, chairman of Olivetti, Italy's giant maker of office automation and data-processing equipment...
Patrons of the long-absent Square hangout One Potato, Two Potato will once again be sipping their drinks and eating their burgers at the familiar Mass. Ave. spot come summertime...
They celebrated being the first seniors of the semester to turn in their 40-60-page theses with champagne, flowers and potato chips...
...report for ten months. When he finally forwarded it to Capitol Hill in October, he stopped short of endorsing its conclusions. He said in a covering letter that the report had been neither reviewed nor approved by the Government. "The GAC report was a hot potato," recalls a White House official. "We couldn't embrace the thing even if we believed it, because to do so would be the kiss of death for arms control, to which the President is really committed. How can we continue trying to negotiate with the Soviets if everything that the GAC report says...