Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look. When Radford took over, he found that J.C.S. procedures were so tangled that only Korean war decisions could find their way out of the J.C.S. to the Defense Secretary, and many an important paper, e.g., a policy for guided missiles, was lost in the backlog. On his first day, Radford got the new team of Chiefs to work in his own office, without staffs, without secretaries, shirtsleeves rolled up; with pencils and paper that they had brought along, they began writing out memoranda on post-Korean force levels and budget needs...
...After each J.C.S. meeting, an officer and a non-com from a special Pentagon nine-man destruction unit empty the secret wastebaskets into a paper bag. They also tear off the scratch papers on the J.C.S. pads, removing the top three or four sheets which, while they probably have no writing on them, do have impressions from the sharp pencils. All this material is catalogued, put in safes for ten days. Then it is taken to one of the basement incinerators in the Pentagon and burned. The ashes are pulverized into dust-thin particles. Then a destruction statement is signed...
...that France had given "a kind of international pledge." Said Pineau: "The approval we have received at the U.N., notably on the part of the U.S., was largely due to the fact that we proposed a constructive solution to the Algerian problem." The constructive solution is still largely on paper. It calls for a ceasefire, elections in peaceful areas, followed by negotiations with the elected Algerians...
While considering the advisability of revising the list of recommended groups, to the possibility of relinquishing its fund-raising campaign to PBH, which could utilize its blood solicitors to collect funds. PBH, in a drive which involved a great deal of paper work and sustained volunteer effort, has shown itself to be a competent agent for such work...
Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker appeared in long brown hair and a loose brown wool dress yesterday afternoon to receive the annual Hasty Pudding "Woman-of-the-Year" award. A pudding pot and paper scroll in commemoration of the event were presented to her by Pudding President Henry C. Holmes '57 (above, right) while E. William Hanmer '57 (left) looked...