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...Among expense-accounters who still turn out, Billingsley professes to see a loss of morale and to hear talk of cutting maids from six days to three, and wearing colored shirts ("You can wear them for two days instead of one"). He is also plagued by chiselers begging for blank customer receipts, the post-Caplin equivalent of a blank check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Expense Account: Prove It and You're O.K. | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...Phillips Brooks House, who visited ACT's head quarters in January and returned disillusioned with the project. Clifton said an official of ACT to whom he had spoken seemed totally unaware of any detailed future plans for the volunteers. "Every question we asked about the program met with a blank wall," he reported...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Rep. Powell and the 'Peace Corps' | 3/23/1963 | See Source »

Eleanor Philby claimed that the "reunion" was for their wedding anniversary -which, however, was last Jan. 24. In Cairo, authorities said that Philby had not registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel and that the signature on the telegraph blank did not match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Kim | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...Black called one of the saddest stories he had ever seen: a parent pushing his son toward a prestige college so hard that the kid broke down. The file began with a letter on the stationery of a large corporation, signed by the president, which requested a college application blank for his son and added in a guileless-looking P.S. that the boy's mother was a Stanford alumna. Next, with thanks for the dean's prompt reply, came a $250 check for the mother's life membership in the alumni association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: The Sheepskin Squeeze | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...caretaker of the local synagogue, but he is no sooner out of the synagogue than he is off to steal food from the supermarket. His adventure has all the suspense of Hannibal crossing the Alps. First he jauntily cases the store, pocketing a contest blank: ''Why I like Queen Mist Tuna, in 25 words or less. Maybe I should tell them. Maybe I should write them how to steal from a supermarket. In 25 words." He thrusts some items into his oversized jacket. But a box of crackers is too large and causes a bulge. He is terrified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Diary of Pains | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

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