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...room was a four-layer cake (the bottom two layers were wood). Freeman announced that "to keep things simple and avoid any resemblance to her last marriage-on the Riviera," no champagne would be served. But one indignant reporter pointed out that "we weren't on the Riviera," so Freeman agreeably changed the pitch. "You want champagne," said he. "O.K., champagne." During a fast and heady wedding luncheon, reporters toasted Rita and Dick. Then the happy but weary couple made for Rita's apartment on the hotel grounds, followed by an entourage of newsmen and hotel employees...
...rigid steel framework were carried to the site and riveted together, and 204 pre-finished concrete panels, measuring up to 8 by 10 ft., were bolted to the steel to form walls. The panels were made by the Marietta Concrete Corp., which in three years has made slabs (two layers of concrete sandwiching a 1½-in. layer of Fiberglas insulation) for 25 large buildings...
...Kurds and their flocks and herds. Last year Solecki became interested in the debris on the cave's floor. Back at Shanidar early this year, financed by a Fulbright grant and surrounded by fascinated Kurds, Archaeologist Solecki carefully dug a square shaft in the promising deposit. The top layers were modern. Just below, he found tools and fragments of pottery from the "historic period" when Shanidar belonged to the Persians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians or the Turks. Below this layer, metal relics gradually disappeared. Stone tools took their place, and the pottery shards grew simpler and cruder. At four...
Inertia in the Mass. The typical civil servant will not deliberately defy or sabotage clear orders from above. But, in the complexity of modern government, clear, sensemaking orders cannot be written from above without willing cooperation below. In the present state of the U.S. Government, the wafer-thin layer of political appointees at the top has great difficulty swinging the massive organization beneath. A Republican appointee with considerable experience in business and Government administration describes the inertia that faces many an Eisenhower executive: "He wants to do something that in business he would handle by a phone call...
Joffroy had long suspected that there might be tombs in his neighborhood, but for years he could find no trace of one. This year he came across some stones plowed up by farmers, and his practiced eye told him that they were the lower layer of a Celtic burial mound about 40 yards in diameter. The rest of the mound, he thinks, was probably used by invading Romans to build a nearby road...