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At this stage, the war calls less for bloodletting than for form filling. There are no battles but plenty of bumf-British army term for paperwork. Powell's people move through "the backwoods of this bureaucratic jungle," and it is a novelistic miracle that he keeps their old characters...
Déclassé Profession. Unlike many civil-libertarians, Williams acquired his lofty ideals in courtrooms rather than classrooms. The son of a Hartford department-store floorwalker, he helped support his family as a filling-station attendant. A flawless student, he was awarded a scholarship to Holy Cross and graduated...
No Random Failure. At the same instant, a couple of technicians standing on a level with the craft windows saw a blinding flash inside the ship. Heavy smoke began to seep from the capsule, filling the white room. A workman sprinted across the catwalk leading to the craft, tried desperately...
The Picture Puzzle. Edward Rice, U.S. consul general in Hong Kong, compares the job to filling in "a picture puzzle from which a good many pieces are missing." His staff of 60 pores over everything from the speeches of high party leaders to reports of steel shipments and Peking opera...
Historically, the student deferment was instituted to insure the availability of educated technical and management personnel capable of filling skilled positions in industry. Provision for the 2-S in the Selective Service Act of 1955 was not only a concession to sentiment against universal military training (unprecedented in "peacetime" before...