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...genetic, we do not, at this time, have the data to permit a further conclusion," leaves me with the same flavor. As close reading of paragraphs 5 and 6 of my letter will show, it was the support (or lack thereof) of this second proposition to which my "sophomore" quip referred...
...rebuff has not stopped Karras from having the last derogatory word. As quick with a quip as he once was at rushing the passer, he is the host of a breezy TV show that runs before N.F.L. Monday Night Football in Chicago. Prior to the first game between Detroit and the Minnesota Vikings, Straight Man Bill Frink asked Karras what the Lions might be thinking about in the locker room. "I think they're voting on whether to come out tonight," said Alex. "Minnesota is a vicious team. They've got hair all over their bodies...
Sometimes wittingly, sometimes not, California's Governor Ronald Reagan has turned quite a few memorable phrases in his brief political career. Reagan was cracking the quip again when he announced that he would lead a delegation pledged to President Nixon at next year's Republican Convention-and thus forgo for the time being any presidential ambitions of his own. Of New York Mayor John Lindsay's plaint that his is the second toughest job in the world, Reagan said that it probably was-"the way he does it." George McGovern, Reagan said, "is testing the water, probably...
...DECADE ago, the U.S. entered on the longest continuous noninflationary expansion in its history-more than four years of golden growth. It was a time when Henry Ford could pass off a sales dip with the quip: "Business is merely terrific instead of phenomenal." Today's businessmen, disillusioned by the current economy, have been looking longingly back at those good old days. How was that prosperity managed? Could the measures used in the early '60s have a salutary effect...
...Your account of the Laos Operation Lam Son 719 [April 5] was less emotional and biased than most, until you button up your "report" with the unfair quip citing, as an old Army tradition, "There always is a scapegoat." How would you handle such a failure in leadership? The Army that you tear away at protects your right to do so-and has done so faithfully for almost 200 years...