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...write an entertainment but to preach a political sermon. Its burden is that leftists and peaceniks really are fools whose habitual prating endangers civilization. Forsyth puts forward this view, at the cost of stopping all narrative action, in a twelve-page position paper. It is supposedly a memo from the real-life mole Kim Philby to the head of the Soviet Communist Party...
...Dreams, as we all know, vanish when we wake. Nightmares vanish too," wrote Continental Illinois Bank Chairman David G. Taylor in a memo to his beleaguered employees earlier this month. But Taylor's corollary proved only half true. The nightmarish flight of Continental's customers that led to the bank's near collapse two months ago has continued. Since May, customers are rumored to have withdrawn two-thirds of Continental's $30 billion in deposits. Last week bank officials appeared to have virtually given up looking for another bank or for some wealthy buyer to infuse...
DIED. George Low, 58, boldly imaginative, Vienna-born engineer who goaded and guided the manned space program with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its predecessors from 1949 to 1976; of cancer; in Troy, N.Y. It was Low who suggested, in a 1960 memo to President John Kennedy, that a man could be put on the moon by decade's end. After the disastrous January 1967 fire that killed three astronauts, NASA Deputy Director Low took charge of redesigning and rebuilding the Apollo craft; with 90-hour, detail-obsessed work weeks, he met his deadline when Apollo...
McFarlane worked closely with Burt to prepare a memo from the White House in early March 1982 that ordered the various agencies to close ranks behind a START proposal by May 1. The purpose of the deadline, remarked McFarlane, was to set off "an explosive charge that will blast apart the log jam in the bureaucracy...
Prelate Del Portillo states it, "seek and find God in the occurrences of daily life." This, he says, turns work from a money-making process into "a task which satisfies the legitimate aspirations of the human heart." A 1979 Opus memo reported that members around the world work, among other things, at 487 universities and schools, 694 newspapers or periodicals, 52 TV or radio stations, 38 publicity agencies and twelve film companies...