Word: file
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simpler times, business records consisted of a bill sent and a payment received. Nowadays, most big corporations are half buried under an avalanche of paper, and expand their records at the average rate of an additional file drawer each year for every employee. A home office, top-heavy with accounting-department records, may be cluttered with 35,000 file drawers that cost $50 a year apiece to maintain. To cut down this paper proliferation, a new kind of specialist - the corporate archivist-has turned up. Largest of these archivists is Manhattan's Leahy Archives, which maintains five storage centers...
...crown-the $80,000-a-year presidency. Nobody tells old President Edwards, due for mandatory retirement, anything he does not want to hear. He is even provided with the tragic flaw of the Shakespearean hero. He likes to pinch women's gloves from dime-store counters and file them away in his great big desk. It is a pretty harmless foible, but if this were known, what would it do to the "Company Image"? Two extraverted corporate types are rivals for his ballpoint-pen scepter, but although the telephone company can command more men than Henry V could...
...Edmund Wilson was one of the recipients of the Presidential Medals of Freedom awarded by President Johnson at the White House [Dec. 6]-the same Edmund Wilson who was recently "awarded" a fine of more than $25,000 for failing to file federal income tax returns for a twelve-year period. Unbelievable...
Nubian women seem happy about the move. Stone walls and concrete floors are a welcome change after a dusty lifetime of adobe and mud. Besides, there are movies, television, schools and clinics. As the Nubians file aboard the paddle steamer headed for Kom Ombo -loaded down with palm fiber beds, carved wooden chests, magical amulets, goats and sheep-they try to exorcise their grief of leave-taking by singing. One song runs: "The Nile is drowning Nubia and we must forget the past. The river brings life and the river brings. death...
...Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop House elections for House at-large seats in the HCUA all saw nominees voted to the Council by acclamation, as only one student in each House bothered to file a nomination petition. Quincy House did not elect a representative, because no student in the House filed a petition for the Council seat...