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...from the analysis, a new Greenwich Village apartment and a pool table, he remains a champion of inconspicuous consumption. The night of the Academy awards, Hoffman?nominated for The Graduate?called a friend, Actor Stanley Beck. "It was about 1 o'clock in the morning," says Beck. "The phone rang. It was Dusty. 'Hey, can you pick me up?' he says. There he is, out at the Academy awards the night he's been nominated for an Oscar, and he has no car, no driver, no place to sleep. I told him to take a cab and he could sleep...
...calls "some dull-as-death Government report that no man in his right mind would pick up if he wasn't getting paid for it." Jean Heller, 26, the team's only woman member, was scanning a routine list of Government contract awards when the name "Techfab" rang a faint bell. She checked her files, confirmed her suspicions that Techfab, a St. Louis manufacturer, was under study by a federal grand jury for allegedly accepting kickbacks on $47 million worth of rocket launchers made for the Navy-and here was the Navy buying more from the same company...
...admit that the other 5% can give the whole business a sour reputation. Car dealers insist that they average less than 1% profit on repair work. Other repair shops, said Robert Straub, president of the Independent Garage Owners of America, "are struggling to stay alive"but his testimony rang rather hollow after the reports of the steep markups...
Last Friday afternoon at 1 p.m. the owner of the store, a short, fat, balding man with glasses, stepped out for lunch. A few minutes later the phone rang. A woman answered it, "Hello, Frederick Douglas Book Store. May I help you?" The woman wore an olive green skirt, a yellow pullover, and a blue and green striped jacket. She was Charlene Mitchell, 38 years old, black, and candidate of the Communist party for President...
...There was some suspicion that his protest telegram might be a forgery, possibly committed by the Soviet Secret Service, which has been known to use this method when it wants to incriminate an intellectual for some reason. But many Sovietologists believe that the message may be authentic. Certainly, it rang with a poet's anguish, as it lamented the invasion...