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...with great integrity and great knowledge." These words were used by Jimmy Carter last month to describe Robert Griffin, who had been fired in July as second in command of the scandal-ridden General Services Administration and given a $50,000-a-year consolation prize as assistant to Anti-Inflation Czar Robert Strauss. Griffin, the President said, had not been tainted by the widespread corruption that investigators have unearthed at the GSA, which spends $5 billion a year to provide federal bureaucrats with office space, supplies and housekeeping services. The cause for Griffin's dismissal was said...
...Boston offense, the Red Sox played cat-and-mouse, creeping toward and sometimes into the lead, but never really taking command of the contest...
Instead the ancient Douglas headed north over the Gulf of Mexico, flying through the night with no approved flight plan or warning lights and maintaining radio silence. Neither the Federal Aviation Administration nor the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) picked it up on radar as it flew low into dense fog over Louisiana. The foreign invaders might have escaped detection altogether but for the fact that their plane lost power and crash-landed in the trees near Farmerville, just south of the Arkansas-Louisiana border...
...wore belts of silver thread, embroidered gloves, and, according to Petrarch's annoyed report, presumptuously donned golden spurs when they rode to their visits attended by a servant. Their wives were permitted greater expenditure on clothes than other women, perhaps in recognition of the large fees doctors could command. Not all were learned professors. Boccaccio's Doctor Simon was a proctologist who had a chamber pot painted over his door to indicate his specialty...
...strolled about, inspecting four damaged landing craft and looking for the 24th Division's command post, with the diminutive [Carlos] Romulo skipping to catch up, [General George] Kenney heard the General murmur to himself: 'This is what I dreamed about.' Kenney thought it was more like a nightmare. He could hear the taunts of enemy soldiers, speaking that broken English which was so familiar to soldiers and Marines in the Pacific: 'Surrender, all is resistless!' and 'How are your machine guns feeling today?' and 'F.D.R. eat shit...