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...Perdue could relive the past few years he said there is apparently very little he would do differently. He paraphrased Mao Tse-tung: "If your enemy never bothers you, you must not be very effective; if he's always trying to lock you up or kill you, you must be doing something right...
...House basement and the Executive Office Building next door. The central repository is a converted broom closet in the E.O.B. basement, a high-ceilinged niche that was furnished with fireproofing material and an iron gate before the first tapes were stored there in 1971. These rooms are under heavy lock and key, so the Secret Service needs only a minimal staff to guard them...
...this country sound superficial, but then a single night's resurrection could hardly acquaint him with the way in which industrialism and more recently technology have altered the American personality. Fragmented into numerical units by an insensitive bureaucracy, separated from much that is natural, fixed into a lock-step system, and forever cajoled to pursue materialistic affluence, no wonder so many Americans have lost spirit...
...responsible apparently did not feel that the Pentagon's normal channels of secrecy would sufficiently guard the Cambodia bombing. Major Knight said that bombing orders in sealed, unmarked envelopes were secretly flown from Saigon by propeller-driven courier aircraft each afternoon before a raid. They were kept under lock and key until dusk-the missions were flown at night to avoid detection-then transmitted by radio to the approaching...
...foot was killing him--and started talking about going back to Canada, leaving Cambridge forever. This particular damn fool came to him with an offer to buy the shop. As Gordon told it, and I hope it wasn't true, this guy offered to buy out the shop, lock and stock--I don't think Gordon owned a barrel--for $600. Then, with the benefit of the Grolier's location, and Gordon's good will, he proposed to open Harvard Square's first porno book store. Gordon threw the damn fool out, God bless him, and went on running...