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...moron," "featherbrain" and "cream puff" at his targets. A recent Troy article on graft in the awarding of state building contracts reeks with outrage: "Spending a weekend reading the transcript from the Oklahoma County grand jury is like being trapped in a sewer for two days. Pustules of corruption sear your senses and you search in vain for some escape from the smothering putrefaction...
...train to New York. A middle-aged man dressed in a spotless grey-flannel suit waits nervously with his wife. Her face is heavily powdered and her hair is piled high on her head. Close to the track a wrinkled-looking man in a creased sear-sucker sports coat checks his watch and begins to pace in a narrow circle. His sparse white mustache stands out on his lined black face, and every few seconds his jaundiced eyes dart to his tattered straw-colored suitcase, checking to see that it is still there...
...Sirloin Pit (across from the Brattle Theater). The Wursthaus affects a slight German accent, fine for families who aren't liable to notice the pretensions because they're busy, if they're normal Wasps, fighting. The headwaiter doesn't like students much anyway. For Mexican food that can sear your insides go to Casa Mexico (75 Winthrop St.): it's good but far from cheap--they've never heard to chili there. For the best Spanish food around Iruna (56 Boylston St.) is a must...
...Russian tourists are always bent on shopping. However eager to please, Saks Fifth Avenue is bound to be stumped by requests for "a ladies' worsted-nylon swimming pants." Salesmen at sporting goods stores will be equally bemused by: "Do you suggest a gun with a rubber or spring sear?" And how are the stylists at a beauty salon to comply with such requests as "make me a hair-dress," "sprinkle my head," or, God forbid, "I want my hair frizzled...
...civilian craft. One goal of the program: the development of a laser that could destroy incoming enemy missiles. Traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), a laser beam could, in theory, intercept a 17,000-m.p.h. ICBM as it was re-entering the atmosphere and sear it into an ineffective hulk while it was still hundreds of miles from its target...