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...unmasking as a paid Lockheed operative was the highlight of a week of corporate scandals; the others involved entertainment of Defense Department officials at hunting lodges by military contractors and a Christmas vacation for Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz paid by the Southern Railway...
Meanwhile, Southern Railway conceded that it had paid for a Christmas visit by Agriculture Secretary Butz to the railroad's private resort near Charleston, S.C.-even though the Agriculture Department has filed petitions with the Interstate Commerce Commission protesting rate increases by Southern on farm products. Butz told the Associated Press that he had done nothing wrong, said he would repay part of the cost himself and defiantly added that, if asked, he would visit the resort again next Christmas...
...young, and getting by was not easy. In his only long novel, Pedigree, Simenon has written about his childhood in Liège; Henriette appears as Elise, a hardworking, humorless, almost avaricious woman. She eventually remarried a man who had what she always wanted-a pension from the Belgian railway...
...chart at the left could be a diagram of a complicated computer's electronic circuitry. Or the schematic plan of a vast railway network. In fact it is just a glimpse of the programs run by a single division of a huge federal department-Health, Education and Welfare...
...purges spawned by the Cultural Revolution. Red Guard pamphlets mercilessly denigrated him as a dissolute, high-living potentate who used his high office to indulge his gluttonous tastes and his bourgeois devotion to bridge and mah-jongg; it was said that he frequently commanded special planes and railway cars to bring his card-playing cronies along on jaunts round the country. At one point he was driven through the streets in a truck with a dunce cap pulled over his ears, jeered at by a screeching, vengeful mob of Red Guards. Eventually he confessed to all the charges against...