Word: desk
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...Adams' testimony, discussed it with Press Secretary Hagerty. Then he conferred with Sherman Adams. They decided that Adams' public appearance had done much to lift the pressure, that the storm would subside. Ike authorized Jim Hagerty to announce meaningfully that "the Governor . . . is back at his desk at work at White House business," i.e., Adams was staying...
...minutes late ("Miss So-and-So," he snapped to a girl who was attending a presidential staff meeting, "you were late three mornings this week!"). Papers shoot into his office and out as fast as his bedeviled secretaries can scoot. "Nobody," says a staffer, "can polish a desk clean...
...desk, Sherman Adams is all business. His chief job is screening the endless flow of business that swamps the President's office and presenting Ike with the kind of direct information-such as a trimmed-down list of names for federal job appointments-on which the President can base a decision. "Whatever I have to do," explained the President at his press conference, "he has in some measure to do." Adams must also settle disputes among top-level officials. "The Governor," says a White House staffer, "is the only man around here with stature enough...
...Will They Talk to Me?" In the White House last week, the man in the eye of the storm sat weary and dispirited at his desk. The grudging spark of humor and the sudden flashes of gaiety that he sometimes permits himself were gone. Tom Stephens, the President's appointment secretary, who helped Adams win the Ike primary in New Hampshire, stepped into Adams' office. "You know how you like to kid me about helping you in New Hampshire?" said Stephens. "Well, I want to help you now, and in a few months I think...
Crowds passing through the display saw copies of Ronson and Zippo lighters, Sheaffer and Parker pens, Bell & Howell movie projectors, Leica cameras, Esterbrook desk-pen sets, Revere Ware copper-bottomed saucepans, even a West German B.M.W. motorcycle. Some Japanese copies were so precise the parts were even interchangeable with foreign products. "There would be many more complaints if people only realized the full extent of the copying," said one trade official. "American electrical appliance makers may be due for an early shock. Japanese appliance manufacturers are rapidly nearing the stage of technical proficiency where facsimile copies will be possible...