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...functions of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, now a toothless body of distinguished citizens, should be expanded to include full oversight of the CIA. To do the job, the board should be given a full-time chairman and a full-time staff...
...WERE UP early the next morning and the road looked bad and slow. Finally a battered old tank slowed down--stalled to a standstill--and we were on our way, for at least a couple of hundred miles. Our driver was a squat, hairy toothless Canadian freak. He laughed like a leprechaun--in great volumes of uncontagious cackles--and he cursed his car at every knock. He wouldn't put it over 50 mph and the hard-iron hills of Nevada clanked by slowly. Huge white letters were carved into the hills--the only signs to tell one town from...
...hard to argue the point once Aggressor Clarke goes into action. With his long curly hair and toothless smile (his four front upper teeth have been knocked out), "Clarkie" out-hustles everyone on the ice, even though he is a diabetic. When teammates do not put out, he blasts them; when he makes a bad pass himself he jams his stick against the boards and curses. One measure of his play can be found in the assist column: Clarke has scored only 15 goals this season, but he has made 53 assists...
...city under siege Santiago lay brooding among itself. The lines of people waiting with ration coupons for cigarettes or soap. The almost begging appeal of shopkeepers with nothing to sell, standing in open door ways watching you pass by. An old woman crouching by a park bench stuffing a toothless craw with a heel of bread, as if something might take it away before she could finish it. And very beautiful young women prostituting themselves for five U.S. dollars to make enough money to leave the country or feed a family, they said...
...wintry cold had already rolled down the slopes of the Piedmontese Alps to Turin, once the quasi-Parisian capital of the house of Savoy and now the Detroit of Italy. Outside Gate 20 of Fiat's Mirafiore plant, a toothless peddler hawked candy that he caustically called "special nougats for the economic crisis." Emerging workers were in no mood for sick jokes, and they bought none of the candy. Instead, they turned to union men passing out notices of protest strikes called against Fiat's shortened week...