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Baffle-Gab Theology Sir: Re your Baffle-Gab Thesaurus [Sept. 13], you failed to note that the bureaucrat selecting 257, "systematized logistical projection," would undoubtedly also feel compelled to invent a suitable acronym for his invention: in this case, SLOP...
Baltimore 4 Boston 3 (5 innings, slop...
Waddling around on feet that by all rights ought to be webbed, Oscar Madison is the slop-happiest hero in history. In midsummer, Christmas stockings still hang over his hearth, and his refrigerator is cleaned so seldom that he has milk standing up in there without the bottle. And yet, as played by Walter Matthau, he is the better half of The Odd Couple...
...ground, work is frustrating for the 300 native laborers and their supervisors. Bulldozers slop through red clay so slippery that they have to winch their way downhill as well as up. The biggest challenge is laying the pipeline, which will cost Texaco and Gulf about $50 million. Machete-wielding workers are helicoptered into the jungle to clear the land for the disassembled bulldozers that follow. Then pipe is dropped in. Four 3,600-h.p. diesel pumping stations are being constructed to boost the oil up the mountain...
...West Coast family dead set against the war. "Why," he wondered last week, "it's the first time my sister and I have ever deeply disagreed." A Kansan reflected the spreading disenchantment by likening the war to "running a foot race with one foot stuck in a slop bucket." Military Historian S.L.A. Marshall, a retired brigadier who agrees with most military men that the U.S. should have "either gone in there to win or cut and run years ago," senses the pessimism himself. "Last spring," he says, "I felt we had a year...