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Pushbutton Files. A filing cabinet that operates like a Ferris wheel, delivering files within reach at the push of a button, has been introduced by Diebold, Inc. Because it stacks records to the ceiling, the 16-shelf model can hold as much as six four-drawer cabinets in half the floor space. Price...
...Assistant Secretary of State he kept in his top drawer a big lined yellow pad on which he listed all the problems that he should be worrying about-"as many as 70 to 80 worries at a time," a friend recalls. Some of the worries went away, some were solved, some blossomed into full-scale crises. But the sum total verified his creed that forethought should be a foundation stone of U.S. foreign policy. In a complex and changing world, he argues, it is not enough to think about problems and challenges as they arise. "We are going to have...
...assailant's years-ago sexual misstep, the one man would kill anyone to win, the other man kills himself. The play's more personal scenes-they are fortunately few-are by all odds its weakest. And straight on from the telltale letter left loose in an open drawer, Advise and Consent far oftener obeys the laws of melodrama than it sheds light on the political depths. Possibly, if political issues and aims are not to be truly probed-something not easily done behind footlights-it is just as well they stay general and simple. But in Advise they...
...drawer of Information Minister Louis Terrenoire lies the draft of a bill giving the government a total veto over the editorial columns of the French press. Private protests to De Gaulle (as well, perhaps, as De Gaulle's own sense of a free press's rights) have so far prevented the bill's being offered to the Assembly. But last week, as critics of De Gaulle and the Algerian war grew more vociferous, the drawer was half open...
...mourns. "I never knew him." But to love someone is enough. Mrs. Barrington tells her, "that's all we dare hope for in this life." The "record" of Cliff's life, containing only a few tentative sentences, is wrapped in tissue paper and locked away in a drawer. Boyd and Alma, who have now become "permanently and very old, their correct age." sit in the dark staring out at the quiet of a summer evening that holds the scent of azaleas and the sound of the courthouse clock striking the hour. In his previous books, Color of Darkness...