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...exhaustive investigation that yielded countless case histories of secretive bureaucracy. The subcommittee discovered, for instance, that a bow-and-arrow weapon devised by a Pentagon civilian employee during World War II had proved useless-but by 1958 was still classed as a military secret. Moss forced many agencies to discard meaningless security precautions and marshaled bipartisan support for revision of the 1946 law that permits federal officials to clam up merely by decreeing that disclosure of data is not "in the public interest...
...cracker-barrel retail concepts with their low-price, high-volume retail stores. In 1897, he gambled his $8,000 savings on a similar shop in Memphis. On the way up, Kresge pioneered in giving his employees sick pay and paid vacations, in 1925 was the first to discard the strict nickel-and-dime rule, began offering goods from 250 to $1 as well...
...over the 117-year-old Burlington, he has even shifted advertising agencies for the first time in 40 years, redesigned timetables (the covers now show a comely girl with an above-the-knee hem line), and started redecorating the line's 54-year-old headquarters in Chicago to discard what he calls the creaky "railroad look." Lou Menk has also reshuffled management, introduced a human-relations course that executives call "the charm school," figures that by emphasizing such small changes, he will get his employees to think seriously about the big changes that he has in mind. "Railroads...
...applicants will have had experience only in the Houses or the Experimental Theater, and these should be given generous consideration. But the committee should not authorize an increased number of undergraduate-directed plays if it can do so only by lowering the quality of Loeb productions. The Committee should discard its earlier plan: twelve main stage shows could be everybody's loss and nobody's gain...
...figures reflect a paradox in the U.S. attitude toward capital punishment. Last year four states virtually abolished the death sentence (New York, Iowa, Vermont, West Virginia), bringing the total of abolition states to 13. But while the rest of the country is still reluctant to discard the death sentence itself, end less appeals as well as commutations now commonly delay or prevent executions. As a result, the 1965 low stands in sharp contrast to the alltime recorded high in 1935, when the U.S. executed 199 persons for crimes ranging from rape to armed robbery to murder...