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...Stonewall Jackson withheld nearly all information even from his top subordinate, Major General Richard S. Ewell, who was heard to complain, "I tell you, sir, he's as crazy as a March hare. He has gone away; I don't know where." Today Jackson would have to parcel out his secret among hundreds of helpers, most of them unknown to him, and some of them untested by their careers on the points of loyalty and discretion...
...three-year contract, the stores agreed to an overall 8½? wage boost (to $2.21 an hour for drivers, $1.94 for helpers) plus some fringe benefits. In return the Teamsters gave up a pair of choice featherbedding privileges: for the first time in eighteen years, the stores can use parcel post to deliver packages of 8 oz. or less, and management, not the union, will now decide when to put helpers on delivery trucks...
...unexpected contribution to the welfare fund popped up in the parcel post last week: a package from New York for deposed President Jacobo Arbenz' wife, who has been in embassy asylum or Mexican exile since June. Because seized letters indicated that the contents had been bought with state funds, the government felt free to open it. Inside, from a Fifth Avenue jewelry firm, were diamond earrings, pearl earrings, a diamond ring and a diamond necklace, ordered early this year by luxury-loving Maruca Arbenz and valued at $25,000. Castillo Armas plans to have them auctioned...
...view, its action is the opposite of caution. Against the background of the Fort Monmouth fiasco, the demoralization of the Voice of America, Stassen's defeat in the Greek Ship squabble, the humiliation of the Pentagon, and the disruption of the State Department, the Oppenheimer episode seems part and parcel of the process by which the government, through one branch or another, has stultified its most vital agencies and suppressed many brilliant and thoughtful...
...stores, surrounded by picket lines just as the Christmas rush began, had factories and wholesalers ship directly to retail customers. They began using parcel post, also gave shoppers photographs of merchandise too bulky to send through the mail, and a promise of delivery as quickly as possible. An appeal by the A.F.L. to wives of union members to cancel their charge accounts fell flat...