Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time McNamara did not call the FBI, but summoned his Air Force inspector general, burly, crew-cut Lieut. General W. H. ("Butch" I Blanchard. The general swept right into the leak-seeking game by calling Reporter Fryklund to his office and asking him point-blank who gave him the memo. Fryklund stood firm upon his obligation to protect his sources, so Blanchard unleashed his plainclothes investigators...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...