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Most of them now work in a reconverted wing of the Sperry Gyroscope Plant at Lake Success, L.I. Their offices, nicknamed "rabbit warren," are cramped, mostly without windows, and erratically air-conditioned. The international civil servants work hard, gripe some, get on without nationalist friction but also without ardent international friendship. Few of them have a sense of high mission in their work; last week, their foremost hope was that the Assembly would get done before Christmas. But most observers agreed that they were doing a workmanlike job of keeping the Assembly grinding away at its curiously varied tasks...
Editorial writers promptly dropped all editorials, the gripe column. General Richardson hurriedly explained that he "was willing" to let them gripe, he just did not want them to call names. Said Editor (Master Sergeant) Chick Avedon: "That's different...
Today's conference was a 75-minute gripe session that might well go down in modern Chinese history as the Day of the Big Wind. First came the Americans' questions: When were idle G.I.s to be reassigned? Why couldn't a correspondent buy a parka when the Army was about to sell equipment to Chinese...
Perhaps catching on to democratic ways, Germans began to gripe-at Allied "inefficiency," at the coming Nurnberg trials of big war criminals. Thousands of unemployed men had ample time for mischief. Here & there, snipers were still active. At night, G.I.s found wires strung across highways, intended to decapitate motorcyclists. U.S. Army cars were looted. German girls suspected of fraternizing were waylaid and warned...
Naps & Breaks. The 5:50 a.m. reveille always makes the aching footballers gripe at their hard fate - mostly in corn-pone drawls (there are six Southerners on the first eleven). And from reveille on, they are never allowed to forget that football runs a poor second to the serious business of being hammered into officers and gentlemen...