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News Columnist Drew Pearson wrote last week that Atomic Energy Commission meetings, once enlivened by "fascinating philosophical discussions" on the future of atomic power, now are "ice cold, stiff and edgy." The reason, reported Pearson, is that AEChairman Lewis Strauss uses a recording machine at meetings, and his security officers have clamped taps on the telephone wires of other AEC members. The result, as Pearson saw it, produced fear-muffled commissioners, who are reluctant to voice opinions lest their words some day be turned against them...
...great distances are all part of the week's work. Take Canada, for example. The five newsstand reps in the Dominion of Canada are Michael Callahan, responsible for all of Canada; Larry Goulet and his assistant Dick Genin, who work from Ontario east through Newfoundland; and Bill Pearson, with his assistant Dick Schouten, responsible for Manitoba west through British Columbia...
...Alberta crashed and burned. The American News Co. in Winnipeg called TIME'S production office in Chicago to rush all available extra copies west. Callahan phoned his distributors in Toronto and Montreal to strip their newsstands to the bare minimum and air-express the copies to Vancouver, where Pearson was busy making special arrangements with his distributors to meet the off-schedule shipments as they arrived...
...toughest three-week distribution scrambles that Pearson has had was during the Fraser Valley flood of 1948. All eastern rail and road connections to Vancouver were cut off. Pearson was on the phone almost constantly, directing shipments of TIME off planes to trains, and off stranded trains back to planes as bridges went out, flights were canceled. Says he: "It was an hour-to-hour guessing game of where to shuffle the load next...
...this, of course, means a great deal of travel. Callahan and Goulet have home bases in Toronto, while Pearson makes his headquarters in Vancouver. Callahan takes at least two trans-Canada trips annually, tallies some 10,000 automobile miles a year, figures his year-long flight log at about 20,000 miles. Larry Goulet's eastern territory requires some 20,000 miles of driving every year, 10,000 miles of flying...