There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.

Los Angeles is many places in one place.

Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"

Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids.

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.