“Fitz,” Assistant Director Roy McKinnon said the day he summoned me to his office at headquarters in Washington in late 1980, “we need an Irishman to go to Boston to kick ass and take names.”

The latter three chapters are memoirs by or about a variety of people who have participated significantly in the field – as teachers, students, and professionals whose careers were bolstered by their acquired Chinese language competence.

Bolcane, Strong-water.

Is Malcolm J. Miller’s South Carolina Sinking Fund partly immune, partly asbestosed, or what?