Word: stanleys
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Sponsored by a Republican acquaintance of Bliss, Mullen applied for the job under his own name, neglecting only to tell the commissioners' chairman, Stanley T. Kusper Jr., that he was a Trib employee. He went to work last April and soon satisfied his suspicious Democratic co-workers that he was on the level. Finally he got access to the office vault and old ballot applications (the slips signed by voters just before entering the booth). Mullen found an apparent forgery almost immediately, one so obvious that "it almost knocked me off my chair." It was only the first...
...sounds like something thought up by Stanley Kubrick for the movie 2001. The silent central control room houses giant twin computers that send dozens of sleek, 80-m.p.h. silvery aluminum passenger trains slicking sibilantly into stations at intervals as close as 90 seconds. Each train has only one blue-jumpsuit-clad attendant, and he allows computers to run the controls except in the event of an emergency. Even tickets are sold (in amounts up to $20) by machine. The buyer inserts coins or bills; after an electronic eye scans them, the machine gives forth a credit-card-sized ticket. Thereafter...
...STANLEY ELLIN 179 pages. Random House...
...earlier puzzlements, Ellery Queen used to enjoy tweaking amateur sleuths by stopping short of the final Byzantine solution long enough to issue a "Challenge to the Reader" to match clues and wits with the smug author. In his newest novel, Stanley Ellin goes Queen one better. He offers the reader a refund instead of a contest...
Edwin Kuh, professor of Economics at MIT and Stanley Surrey, Smith professor of Law were instrumental in the drafting of McGovern's revised economic proposals. Paul Samuelson, a colleague of Kuh's worked with him on the draft, but has not been as active in this campaign as he had been in the past for Democratic candidates. "I'm working on the ninth revision of my textbook now no I really don't have the time to be as active as I was for Jack Kennedy," Samuelson said. "I'll probably confine my activities to talking to financial groups...