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...show how precious little privacy Americans have, Hanna Weston, an economics instructor at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, set out to learn everything she could about the personal affairs of her friend, State Senator Minnette Doderer. The Johnson County auditor's files disclosed that her house was valued at $47,110 and that her property taxes were $1,252.94 a year. An official at an Iowa City bank had no qualms about telling Weston that a $500 check on Doderer's account would clear, meaning that she had a balance of at least that much...
...pick up a truckload of Coors beer and bring it home in a day's time. The distance is 1,800 miles. The plan is for Burt, driving a sports car, to act as diversionary force if the Smokey Bears come around while Jerry chugs along with their precious (and, in Georgia, contraband) cargo...
...Bogart spoof, Cheap Detective, set in 1940s San Francisco. Written by Simon, it stars Falk along with Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing and Madeline Kahn. A natty Falk makes time with all six ladies while stumbling up against the Gestapo on a hunt for precious gems that look like birds' eggs-a kind of Maltese omelet...
...frequently longer than a five-year plan and seldom shorter than the Berlin blockade. Only those with access to foreign currency seem to be able to drive away from a showroom with a new car minutes after walking in. For humbler folk who have the cash to spend (but precious little to buy), the wait can drag on for as long as seven years. Although the Polish government is trying hard to meet consumer needs, the fierce demand for wheels outstrips the supply. To beat black marketeers to the punch, Poland's Communist leaders employ an un-Marxist solution...
What any committee invented to Study the Problem will doubtless discover first is that as far as race relations at Harvard go, there are precious few. Minorities and whites in the main don't see each other as individuals but as Representatives of a Position or Metaphors of the Moral Life. Whites undervalue minorities by considering them delicate pieces of psychic porcelain likely to shatter at the first sign of a Stereotype (cf. the Epps Decision) and thus to be beningly neglected; whites overvalue minorities by seeing them as the exemplars of ethical impulses (cf. the "Birth of a Nation...