Word: proof
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...karat gold, and placed the gun in a mink pouch in a Baccarat crystal case embossed with the customer's name. Bijan's own signature is engraved in gold on the shank of the gun. It is the perfect accompaniment to his line of bullet-proof clothing. "Gucci," he says with evident pride, "never did gold pistols." Advertisements, which have run in such trendsheets as Interview and Town and Country, include one with a black-robed woman pointing the revolver at the reader...
...Proof of any of the allegations so far has been singularly elusive. Two former congressional pages first aired the sex charges on national TV three weeks ago. One, Leroy Williams, 18, of Little Rock, Ark., claimed to have had sex with three Congressmen and to have secured the services of a prostitute for a Senator. But he has failed an FBI lie-detector test. The other page, Jeff Opp, 16, of Denver, said he had heard from friends that perhaps half a dozen Congressmen were sexually abusing male pages, but conceded that none had tried to seduce him. FBI agents...
Unsettled by this unfavorable attention, the I.A.C.P.'s executive committee voted only to censure, not expel him. In the end, Murphy took the incident as further proof of one of his earlier volleys at the I.A.C.P.: "By your action, you summon up the image of police chiefs as members ol an inferior vocation in public service, fearful of dissent and debate and caught in a web of conformity. In this, you don't hurt Pat Murphy, but you bring ridicule to the calling of police management...
...State Department offered a backhanded compliment of sorts to agents of the KGB last week. "The Soviets are becoming more sophisticated," said an official commenting on the State Department's release of six documents that it claimed were Soviet forgeries. The department offered no proof, only the observation that the fakes fit a pattern of Soviet mischief-making in the past. The documents, which included letters that were purportedly signed by President Reagan and other high Administration officials, seemed designed to embarrass the U.S. and create friction with its allies. As it turned out, the forgeries were not very...
Tron ironically makes this latter point more effectively than its producers hoped. By releasing this abysmal movie. Disney serves as a prime example of man destroyed by technological obsession. As proof of the failure. Disney stock dropped $2.50 a share after a special pre-screening and some preliminary pans...