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...fervor and assurance of a man nurtured on late Victorian intellectuality, steeped in 1930s radicalism and tempered by more than 30 years on Fleet Street. He makes no apology for his bookishness: "Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power." He draws a charming portrait of his father, who passed on his bibliophilia, and a colorfully contradictory one of his father-figure, Lord Beaverbrook. Foot reminisces warmly about his exasperating fellow journalist Randolph Churchill, but repeats the remark that he "should not be allowed out in private." He sketches...
Enterprising Spanish importers figured they would find another market for the oil by reversing the "denaturing" process that had transformed it into industrial oil, simultaneously making it unfit for human consumption. Apparently, some distributors botched the reversal process and unwittingly created a deadly poison. But the adulterated oil was already on the market, being peddled by door-to-door salesmen who unsuspectingly offered their lethal wares as a bargain for hard-pressed families. At about $5.50 for a 5-gal. plastic container, the oil cost 25% less than a comparable amount of olive...
...Unfit to be Tied...
...unanimous judgment of the committee that no basis has been found for concluding that Mr. Casey is unfit to serve as director of Central Intelligence...
...John Chafee, had urged the committee to express its "absolute confidence" in Casey. Others, including Goldwater, New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, wanted to avoid any pronouncement until the investigation of Casey's background was complete. Instead, the committee found him merely "not unfit" to continue...