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Modern Techniques. Kitman is the kind of rabid comic who would buy a 1911 Chinese railway bond and then try to call up Chairman Mao to find out how the investment has been doing lately. He decided to look behind the sober smoke screen of Washington's meticulously kept accounts. In a fiendish demonstration of the power of scholarship, he proves, almost convincingly, that the father of his country was also the founder of modern expense-account living...
Just across the Athens-Piraeus electric railway, the dig looks more like the excavation for a large new office building than the repository of one of ancient Greece's most famous sites. But the signs of the celebrated stoa-which was about 60 ft. long and 20 ft. wide-are clearly apparent to the trained eye. Still visible amid the rubble are the base outlines of twelve Doric columns that ancient chronicles say guarded the eastern base of the portico. So too are markings from the three walls that enclosed the rest of the building. In fact, the north...
...passengers ride at reduced rates or pay nothing at all; full fares are paid only by tourists and the few odd souls who do not fit into any of the categories in the eleven-column, fine-print list of those entitled to "special" rates. In the Italian railway hierarchy, cardinals rate free private compartments; judges and most government officials get free seats; bishops, crippled people and journalists qualify for 20% to 70% fare reductions...
...headed diversification policy. In 1965, Billera took over as president, and set out to put his own ideas into effect. He had already had a successfully diverse career. The son of an Italian immigrant tailor, Billera grew up on New York's Lower East Side, worked as a railway-station porter and semipro basketball and baseball player. He also attended night classes at City College of New York, earning a degree in business administration. Today his salary is $122,000 a year. "I stopped working for money years ago," he says. "I'd earned...
...asserting his position as first among equals in the Politburo and pointing to the support he personally commands in the Soviet army. Kremlinologists were also struck by the fact that Brezhnev, on his return to Moscow from a three-day trip to Budapest last week, was met at the railway station by Grechko, Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, Commander of the Warsaw Pact forces, and Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov. Such a turnout, which would ordinarily pass unobserved, seemed to indicate the source of Brezhnev's present strength...