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Once bureaucracy begins multiplying itself, there is just no stopping it. The General Services Administration, which is Government's housekeeping bureau, set out energetically a year ago to provide quarters, paper clips and wastebaskets for the army of war expediters, reorganizers and mobilizers it expected to descend on the nation's capital. Last week, having just about tripled its annual spending on such things (to about $2,000,000), GSA sheepishly admitted that it had overbought a bit: its warehouses are full of brand-new furniture. It has 2,000 walnut desks stacked high in an old mill...
After the senior president ecstatically murmurs her little piece about the first Tree Day the senior mistress and her court of four, elected for their beauty, descend from Founders Hall...
After 15 minutes the societies started to slam their windows to give notice that their tapping was done. Each time a window closed the juniors about me looked up anxiously, trying to determine from what quarter a blessing might still descend...
...determine that our civilization is not to fall, and that the ice cap of the police state shall not descend upon either us or Western culture. Even if open struggle comes, if we are determined to preserve the faith by which we live, we can rebuild much of the damage done and free ourselves and others from the fear of tyranny . . . Let us resolve to win. Let us have faith and in that faith...
...descend from noble folk...