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...characteristically by the clock, Mendès quickly got unanimous Cabinet approval for Geneva, then closeted himself with three secretaries to dictate his speech for the National Assembly. Six hours after leaving the airport, Mendès was at his place in the government front benches, thumbing a pink folder and the white sheets of his manuscript...
Monkey and the Weight."-And his practical inventions included a plan for simplifying money orders, "a new and better rule for Lawn Tennis," a new form of backgammon, a folder for postage stamps. He was delighted to sit up "till 4 a.m., over a tempting problem sent me from New York, 'to find three equal rational-sided right-angled triangles' ... I found two . . . but could not find three...
...application, placed in a folder along with the preparatory school's report, correspondence, and the interviewer's report, will eventually be read by a member of the admissions board...
...Squads of local salesmen from the Washington area called in person at Weeks's office and left their lavishly illustrated '54 sales brochures. Wrote one man on the calling card he left with a Buick folder: 'After reading the TIME article, I decided to conduct a personal sales campaign.' A telegram from one dealer in Eureka, Calif, tried flattery: 'A man in your position should definitely buy a Nash "Airflyte." ' A dealer from Indianapolis wired his direct pitch, making traditional use of the salesman's superlative: 'I herewith...
...National Security Council meeting. For three days he had closeted himself in a secluded Capitol office, writing observations of and conclusions from his ten-week inspection of the Far and Near East. At the meeting, the NSC's 177th, Nixon pulled the penciled results from a file folder, read and talked for an hour and a half. Whatever it was he said, it made a good impression: his audience, consisting of the President, four Cabinet members, the Chiefs of Staff and other top officials, clapped. Never before had the NSC's members burst into a shower of applause...