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Inside, there is no display, only a single room domain staffed by three unmarried elderly ladies. Tables are piled with stacks of envelopes and green file boxes, and leaflet literature lies scattered on the floor...
...division of missions among the Army, Navy and Air Force was a matter of Biblical simplicity: the Army's domain was the land, the Navy's the sea, the Air Force's the air. Missiles upset this neat and workable pattern. To Army eyes, missiles are essentially artillery. The Air Force considers them unmanned planes. Navymen see them as modifications of carrier planes and battleship guns. Fearing loss of missions, prestige and even existence, the three services have scrambled fiercely for shares of the missile field. Result: three missile programs that duplicate and even triplicate each other...
...great defect of Hynek's proposal is that it is politically impracticable. There is already too much confusion of authority in Washington; the Secretary of Science's domain would be hopelessly intertwined with almost every other department, particularly Defense and Health, Education and Welfare...
...show in advance with CBS. and in turn CBS decided retroactively that it had lent Murrow the network's right to editorialize. The network lists him only as one of its hired hands, but Murrow is something of a power in himself, with his own generously financed domain and the strong personal loyalty of key CBS news staffers. His unique status stems from 1) his close friendship with Board Chairman William S. Paley, with whom he deals directly, 2) his onetime role as a major architect of its news staff and policy, and 3) the hard fact that...
...Martinez wrote an editorial in the paper's two-page Spanish section, bewailing the defeat of the federal school-aid bill. Third editorial, a scornful attack on parking meters, was written by a local poet and sometime newsman named Spud Johnson, who runs a private, one-page domain called "The Horse Fly" (subtitle: "Smallest & Most Inadequate Newspaper Ever Published...