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Imagine the general amazement when, quoting the popular expression that "The fish rots from its head, not from its tail," the President set out to hack away graft in government from the top down. First hit was the judiciary. At Helou's prodding, the Supreme Judicial Council in December fired 13 prominent judges whose "irregularities" were well known. Last week the diplomatic service was called up on its own red carpet. Sacked "for not properly representing Lebanon" were the ambassadors to Russia, Iran, Cyprus, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Senegal and Argentina (the ambassadors to Britain and Egypt had quit...
...them up, all right, especially on the day, weeks later, when he finally had enough fuel on board for an escape. Five airport guards tried to stop him by hanging onto the tail. He blew them off with a blast of prop wash and headed for Pakistan, but not before circling over the Delhi jail to drop a packet of cookies to his former fellow inmates. Flying low, he eluded the Indian Air Force jets that were scrambled to bring him back. After landing at Karachi, he declared to reporters: "The only violation of Indian law I have committed...
...editors, reporters and publishers to talk some aspects of shop. These dinners are actually the only time that the Nieman program comes close to resembling a trade school. This aspect of Nieman deserves attention, and obviously some speakers are better (or worse) than others, but it is hardly the tail which wags...
...chairs) and circumstances (perfumed air, Muzak, and a cast of supporting players that includes one girl who does nothing but help customers with their zippers). They are whirlwind travelers who can comb out 250 New York debutantes one day, rinse an Italian princess the next, and pin a pony tail on a marquesa in Spain before nightfall (Alexandre's itinerary took him around the world twice just in the month of October). Each is accompanied by a vast retinue of apprentice craftsmen and enough apparatus (hair dryers, electric curlers, rollers, sprays, creams, nets, wigs, wiglets, switches, and six varieties...
Tweaking the tail of a tiger is chancy sport, as the American Football League discovered last week. The A.F.L. had been feeling pretty big: this year's attendance was 23% higher than 1964's, that lovely TV loot was rolling in at the rate of $7,200,000 a year, and the caliber of play around the league had improved to the point where sportswriters were calling for a "World Series" between the A.F.L. and the older (by 40 years) National Football League. After five years of trying to forget that the A.F.L. even existed, the N.F.L. finally...