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The corporate types are firmly in control. The Russians, it appears, have sent a mole To steal our secrets. And the Chinese wait For tension to develop in their Strait. It's all so fifties! Wouldn't it be weird If Engine Charlie Wilson reappeared?

Calvin Trillin

April 19, 2001

The corporate types are firmly in control. The Russians, it appears, have sent a mole To steal our secrets. And the Chinese wait For tension to develop in their Strait. It’s all so fifties! Wouldn’t it be weird If Engine Charlie Wilson reappeared?

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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