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...blue gem"-a handwritten note from the director. (Hoover is the only person in the FBI who uses blue ink, so that his messages are instantly recognizable. Other FBI officials use pencil, in part because if they approve a memo moving up the chain of command and then Hoover inks in his disapproval, they can erase their judgment as the memo descends through the chain). Hoover's "gem" to Sullivan: "Take two weeks...
...coach who moved to the Pacific Coast from Vanderbilt to take command of U.C.L.A. and turned the lowly rated Burins into a national power? In six seasons his teams compiled a 42-11-1 record and in 1954 won the national championship...
...seems to me that formal versification is absolutely necessary to poetry," he observes, "because it's the assurance to the reader that the poet is at least in temporary command of the disorder out there and of the disorder inside himself. Without that order, poetry begins to go off in all directions at once; it dissolves...
...than 65 of them nuclear-powered (but not counting sizable forces in the Baltic, plus the East German and Polish navies). By contrast, the entire U.S. Atlantic Fleet has 358 ships, of which 40 to 50 are assigned to the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Since 1968, the U.S. command has been cut back 25% in ships and 19% in men, and it is scheduled to lose another ten ships by next summer. Says Norway's Rear Admiral Magne Braadland: "The threat to the U.S. is not coming from Viet Nam and not from Central Europe either...
...resigned indifference? Spokesmen for the militantly anti-Thieu, antiwar An Quang Buddhists charged that Thieu had "killed democracy and given birth to dictatorship." Supporters of Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky urged the Vietnamese "not to recognize the faked results." But never before had Thieu seemed more firmly in command. Before the election, when Ky's people were raising ominous visions of post-election catastrophe, the CIA estimated that there was a 40% chance of a post-election coup attempt; now the estimate is closer to zero...