European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns Story suffers death in the afternoon by Russell Baker new York i thought of who had been a Good Man once but was no Good anymore by the time Robert Jordan came to blow the i also thought of who was played beautifully by Katina Paxinos in the movie in which Gary Cooper was miscast As Robert Pablo was a Good Man but now he has the Pilar was constantly telling Robert or words to that worst of i thought of the title filched from Donnes for whom the Bell the suspicion that the Bell was tolling for me had begun when the machine lost something id everybody had said it would happen sooner or youve just finished writing this Beautiful thing and zip it vanishes and is gone said even Howard said and Howard loves the believes in the machines and wants everybody to love the but he con ceded that they were double Cross you now and Howard i didst think it would happen to i am unlucky at unlucky at but Lucky at the machines would lose everybody else but not so i was went around telling everybody i had Learned to love the just As Howard wanted me the horror i experienced when it started to lose my work that Day is hard to it was a firs class piece of considering that it was Only daily Jour and i was smiling contentedly to myself when i realized what was the firs class journalistic prose was i remember Reading years ago news stories about the death of Al reporting that he collapsed suddenly among cried in and i disbelieved those nobody can know Hes i als friends stretched the truth a yet staring in horror at the it was obvious that my work was it had started to run off the Bottom of the screen and i knew that nothing human hands could do to the machine would make it run Back in an instant it was As definitively gone As the great As a though the Sun had Long since another four hours of labor were required at the key As another i began to have the Howard came and he was entitled he had told me it would of course howards labor is not the combining of words in harmonious groupings his is the labor of persuading everybody to love the machines to love them too for their Why he smile these machines have devices to preserve ones writ Ings a word at a if you by jiggling certain you can Transfer the stuff to a disk resembling a phonograph where it will be reasonably after a few weeks of this i was producing material of which Truman capote might have that not writing its i knew too Well what Pilar would say about me to Howard he was a Good Man but now he has the in not sure Why Pilar would be talking to maybe they would be collaborating on a scheme to blow up my since i resumed using it the writing again seems like but you know what they say of those who turn their backs to the future and choose to live in the past the Bell tolls for c new York times prime example of Wade in by Art Buchwald while Buchwald is on vacation we reprint some of his columns from the Randolph chief lobbyist for the Ameri can hot and cold steel was awakened by his Swiss made computer alarm then he showered and shaved with the new electric his wife had bought which made in Ger he then started since he was going to testify in front of a congressional committee he selected his suit deciding on a silk tie that came from finally he put on his italia made Gucci he filled his Paris made Hermes briefcase with All the papers he would need for his it was raining out so he grabbed his Trench it was his favorite and he was amazed that the Span of All could manufacture Trench Coats at a third the Price of the american Habermeyer kissed his wife goodbye and got into his Mercedes Benz to drive from Potomac to the in the Mercedes he had a which had been made in and he called his office to dictate several messages to his Secretary on a German made Grundig he also had a pocket size dutch made Philips recorder in the car to remind him of things he wanted to do the next suddenly he looked at his Gas gauge and realized he was Short of he stopped at a by British Petroleum station and filled up the Habermeyer was listening to his radio As he drove they were advertising a new Star wars rocket a toy made in Hong he made a note to buy one for his son for the next commercial had to do with a French cuisinart Habermeyer decided to get one for his wife because she had said they were still the Best on the As he was driving along he realized he had time to buy some since cuban ones were still not on the he favored the ones made in the Canary is the clerk was pushing a new Cigar that had been manufactured in the but Habermeyer said hed stick with his he also bought a throwaway lighter made in South then he got Back into his Mercedes and drove up to the before going to the committee room to he stopped off to see a congressman Friend and gave him a Box of Swiss chocolates that one of the people from the company had brought Back on a recent the lobbyist knew the congressman had a Sweet and he think of a better gift to finally Habermeyer went to the committee room to he was the second he sat at the took out his prepared statement and began to on behalf of the american hot and cold steel As Well As All american steel i am raising my voice in angry protest Over the flagrant dumping of foreign steel in this this committee must decide whether we will permit the importation of foreign steel at the Price of sacrificing american jobs and doing mortal damage to the Ameri can the time has come for us to enough is we cannot survive when we have to compete with the labor costs of other it is your patriotic duty to see that the United states is protected from the flooding of foreign imports which As an american find Habermeyer took 30 minutes to read his statement and then looked at his japanese Seiko watch and realized his time was c los Angeles times today crossword von Mafune tub ojkatin6 by Eugene Sheffer across 1 gun the engine 4 watch part 8 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