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Morale at the FDA is frequently bad these days, and senior positions can be hard to fill. Example: Commissioner Kennedy, a biologist, took over last month, a full three months after the resignation of his predecessor, Dr. Alexander Schmidt. In addition, Schmidt had given five months' notice of his intent to leave. Acknowledges Kennedy, who has developed a crash-course understanding of the FDA's problems: "I am learning that the agency does little that is not controversial...
...ounce slug is a gnat swatter, at its worst a woman's weapon snatched from a purse to dispatch an errant lover. No self-respecting all-pro killer would carry one. The facts, however, are otherwise. The CIA has long preferred the .22. The agency's predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services, developed a silencer-equipped Hi-Standard .22-cal. automatic pistol during World War II. It turned out to be the only production-model handgun that can be effectively silenced, and it has been the favorite of spooks ever since. Now, says...
Oliver's Story (note the original title) takes its rightful place on a literary scale with its inconsequential predecessor, but it weighs in at a whopping 264 pages, more than twice as long as Love Story. The problem is that Segal cannot make the same trick work twice. His style is exactly the same as in Love Story, but the sequel has neither the wit nor the brevity that made Love Story the dubious achievement that it was. Oliver's life as a widower simply is not interesting enough to fill that many pages. Perhaps the only encouraging thing about...
...Harvardiana. Oliver is the consummate Harvard hero--hip, smooth, and above all rich, an amalgamation of everything Segal apparantly admires. To foist Oliver on an unsuspecting world once is bad enough; to do it twice is almost criminal. If Oliver's Story continues to sell as well as its predecessor, Segal is at least assured of being rich, and perhaps he will put the Barretts and the public out of their misery by discontinuing the saga...
...road, Vance has so far been content to use Kissinger's back-up Boeing 707. It is less comfortable than the plane regularly used by his predecessor, which is now part of the Administration's fleet. Kissinger spent a good deal of time in the rear of the plane talking off the record to reporters, even as the jet rocketed down the runway. He would return two or three times during a trip to chat, quip, tell jokes and stories about foreign leaders or spin out grand stratagems while nibbling peanuts or candy. Vance is more reserved...