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...only reason that Saturday's action didn't produce another bizarre shake-up in the Ivy standings was that this week's clashes were all against non-league foes...
...shake-up was another stroke of luck. It separated Puzo from his civil service security blanket and drove him to the offices of Magazine Management. The company owned such macho publications as Male, Men and Man's World. Puzo wrote battle stories. "I became an ace pulp writer," he recalls. "I wiped out whole armies. I wrote a story about an invasion in which I killed 100,000 men and then later read the statistics. There were only 7,000 killed. But in the process, I became an expert on World War II. I knew more than anybody because...
...Cabinet shake-up responds to American anger over trade...
Indeed, the big loser in the great gas station shake-up has been the small businessman who leases his station from a large firm and depends on it to provide fuel and marketing support. Often these operators make most of their money from car repairs or maintenance, and do not want to switch to selling gas exclusively. Yet, if they refuse to go along, the companies can and sometimes do refuse to renew their lease...
There is one CIA weakness for which Turner has no ready solution: detecting and countering the efforts of foreign intelligence agents to acquire U.S. secrets. The weakness stems in part from a shake-up in which veteran counterspies were replaced. The shifts took place before Turner arrived, but Knoche believes such work requires a periodic turnover of agents who will go all-out for a time and then take on other duties. Explains Knoche: "The work by its nature-where you constantly have to build negative or paranoid assumptions-can almost guarantee a form of illness...