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...have to go to Rio de Janeiro: in their window-gazing moments our correspondentsthere can look across Rio Harbor to Sugar Loaf Mountain. Drawback: to get into the office at night, you'd have to go through a neighboring apartment building, rise in a rickety service elevator, grope your way down some very dark corridors...
...breakthrough that would sweep the Germans back to the Rhine-but the pace was grinding and generally slow. For the time, at least, it was a painful battle of attrition. At several points west of the Rhine, the German counterattacks forced the Allies to back up, to grope for new footing for the next plunge ahead. The U.S. Seventh Army slugged it out at Belfort, the Third at Metz, the British at Nijmegen, the Canadians on the coast...
...their idle dreams and nostalgia are true and good. They cry: "Carry me back, Master, to the cathedral town where the canons run through the water meadows with butterfly nets and the old women keep sweetshops in the cobbled side-streets, or back to the upland milltown . . . with its grope-movie and its poolroom lit by gas, carry me back to the days before my wife put on weight, back to the years when beer was cheap and the rivers really froze in the winter...
...time last week, State announced its big organizational shakeup. To students of administration, the plan looked excellent on paper. Duties of policymakers had been clearly staked out. There was no reason why top men, each one now busy with his new divisions and well-defined duties, should continue to grope and work at cross-purposes. There was to be a new emphasis on departmental administration. Operations would funnel through twelve new "line" officials. The Secretary would be aided in policymaking by two powerful steering committees (Policy & Postwar Programs). There was a well-staffed new Division of Public Information. An Assistant...
Nonetheless, it shall be done as officers in officers' garb. You shall go without sleep, yes, but as gentlemen. No more, either, shall other shipmates be awakened while you grope for galoshes (1 pr.), havy underwear (2 pr.), and other innumerable garments. From now on, come security watches, and only your wife shall be awakened. A slight reversal of the usual procedure of waking her when you come in. Life is like that in war-time...