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...President sent out a call to heads of 20 major departments and agencies of the Federal Government. From the mountain of data that poured in, the White House staff distilled a 15,000-word rough draft. Then, line by line, President Eisenhower knifed through it with his sharp yellow pencil, suggesting, rewriting, calling for more new facts. The process went on at the White House, then in the little office in Georgia above the pro shop at the Augusta National Golf Club. In all, the message went through more than 20 formal drafts. Last week, only four hours after...
...Force announced a plan to hire local civilians to replace 35,000 earthbound airmen doing pencil and monkey-wrench work at overseas bases. Operation Native Son, as the Air Force unofficially dubbed it, will free the 35,000 for military tasks, save a lot of money besides. An Air Force enlisted man, costing $14,000 to train and $4,900 a year to keep, makes an expensive grease monkey; a skilled Japanese mechanic is happy to do the work for $900 a year-handsome wages...
...told to call again in five minutes. To get everything just right for the interview, I went upstairs to a bedroom and closed the door. The lock on the door is broken, but I clicked the door shut with my foot, picked up the bedside phone. With pencil and pad in hand I put in the call...
...soldier's life, and his pictures reflect a soldier's-eye view of the war, e.g.. his sketch of General Andrew Porter. De Joinville was chatting with a group of officers one afternoon when he saw the general crossing the parade ground. He whipped out his pencil, captured the pomposity of the potbellied commander astride an equally pompous, arch-necked mount...
Pocket Radio. RCA demonstrated a tiny (2 in. by 4 in.) radio receiver, in which transistors do the work of vacuum tubes and a pencil flashlight battery supplies the power. Sound volume is great enough to be heard in a good-sized room...