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Most states use convict labor to make their license plates, and now and then car owners around the country still unwrap their new tags to find the penciled gag: "Help! I am being held here against my will...
President Kennedy kept his plan for avoiding a nationwide railroad strike a secret right down to the moment he was ready to unwrap it. Only a few members of his own New Frontier team knew what he was going to propose. He wanted to spring his plan on Congress before critics could marshal any arguments. Then, to the White House one day, he summoned a passel of congressional leaders. Seated at the Cabinet Room's spacious, coffin-shaped table, he somberly reported that management and union negotiators were deadlocked, and that federal intervention was the only way out. Then...
...weeks Congress has stalled the Administration's $5.3 billion omnibus education bill, containing aid for everyone from preliterate tots to illiterate adults. Last week the White House wearily agreed to let Congress unwrap the package and choose among the goodies. Prognosis: passage for perhaps $1.2 billion in aid for college construction, but probable death for aid to public schools...
...days later a young woman would come over--they use women more over there--with a package wrapped in brown paper about this big." Here he chopped with his hands, cutting off a piece of air the size of a large loaf of bread. He continued, "You'd unwrap it, and there would be a stack of ruble notes. You would both look at it for a moment or so and then wrap it up again and march off to a bank and deposit...
...every Russian rejection of their proposals had been to fish out another minor concession or two with which to tempt Gromyko. Result was that by last week's recess, they had exhausted all the painless compromises the West had to offer, while Gromyko had barely begun to unwrap his stony-eyed alternatives...