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...files are systematically churned into pulp. The company has also arranged separate corporate storage centers for such paper-heavy giants as Bethlehem Steel, General Electric and Grumman Aircraft, and has moved into a new field by microfilming irreplaceable company documents and storing the film in an isolated New England cave that would hopefully survive a nuclear...
Oiling the Hinges. Ever since the first cave man sealed a tribal alliance over a haunch of charred flesh and a gourdful of fermented juice, such working sessions have been as much a part of diplomacy as the formal conference. Thanks largely to his wit and disarming manner at parties, Benjamin Franklin coaxed 55 million livres out of a nearly bankrupt French government during American Revolution. Bound for the Congress of Vienna, Talleyrand told King Louis XVIII, "Sire, I have more need of casseroles than of written instructions," and his success in softening the terms imposed on his defeated nation...
...investigation was launched to see if there had been negligence at the mine, and the East German radio even managed to find a propaganda issue-capitalist callousness. Meanwhile, the rescue work continued. The drill had to work slowly because of the danger of a cave-in, but eventually and luckily pierced the only spot in the gallery's roof that was solid rock. Just 103 hours after the eleven were heard from, the first of the miners emerged from the "rescue bomb," a sort of torpedo-shaped elevator that had been lowered into the new shaft with two volunteer...
...time on the shelf, Nabisco buys it back from the store and grinds it into pig feed. Among the recent failures that went to the hogs were Sesame Thins and Celery Thins. When one shareholder asked at the annual meeting why Sesame Thins had been dropped, Vice President Nile Cave answered: "This happens to be an item I personally like, but unhappily other people don't seem...
...seduces him and shows him off to a menagerie of North Shore friends at a cocktail party. The savage flees to dwell in the jungle in earnest; the girl follows on the wings of love. Departing civilization in soulful triumph, she surrenders herself to life and love in a cave-even as native bearers carry into the jungle her bathtub, her refrigerator, her television...