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Then came Dita Beard's disavowal of the memo that Anderson had published. That claim seemed at best peculiar, since Anderson's assistant had showed her the memo three weeks before, giving her plenty of time to denounce it. If the memo was a fake, why did ITT go to the trouble of shredding its documents in Washington? Early on, ITTs defenders went to some lengths to portray Mrs. Beard as a sometimes irrational incompetent. Having first tried to discredit her, they are hard pressed to defend what she says...
Erdmann called the log a "fake." She also disputed Cronin's testimony that on the first day of the strike, waitresses had picketed within 12 inches of the restaurant's entrance, interfering with customers...
...curious datedness hangs over Playboy. The props never change-the stereo wailing, the fake gun collection framed in place on the wall, the satin sheets on the bed. One poor swinger who failed to keep up with his status symbols had to have the editor explain to him why there are so few convertibles on the market. Girls are still called chicks, and the cartoons are often 1930s vintage-elderly lechers chasing gamboling nymphs around the old yacht. Playboy fiction often features the best names-Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene-though not too often their best work. Playboy interviews, alertly conducted...
...great thing." Fitzgerald's reply is a lengthy History of the Simple Inarticulate Farmer and his Hired Man Christy in which he debunks the artistic pretentions of Boyd and others. "It amazes me, Max, to see you with your discernment and your fine intelligence fall for that whole complicated fake...
Sheehan did the Times presentation of the Pentagon papers and before that took the time to prove that large portions of a book chronicling U.S. atrocities in Viet Nam were fake. He naturally and justly decries the manipulation of the press, and cites the defense of the Vance's deposed skipper as a case in point...