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Pray tell, what is the weird-looking instrument being played by the member of Stu Symington's pep band [see cut]? Something new or just a trombone that barely survived a "demonstration...
...kept a clean desk, stuffed all incoming mail in a small drawer and remarked: "When I can't close the drawer, someone around here isn't doing enough work." As he recruited people into the Special Projects group, Red gave them all-including their families-a patriotic pep talk on the importance of their mission. Whenever anyone seemed to be soldiering on the job, he was hauled before the admiral for "re-dedicating." Remembering one of those emotional sessions, one S.P. officer says: "When I walked out, I knew I was ready to die for someone...
...Raborn's request, the top men from all his important contractors-Lockheed, G.E., General Dynamics, M.I.T.-were summoned to a meeting in Washington. In a speech that was part locker-room pep talk, part sermon, part Navy enlistment appeal, part Arthur Godfrey commercial, they were asked if they were willing to proceed on "wartime urgency with wartime dedication." If the answer was yes, said Raborn, "I want the word of your company in bond that you will...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory moved to cut domestic consumption last April by imposing stiff restrictions on installment buying. He followed through last month by raising the bank rate to an anti-inflationary 6%. And Prime Minister Harold Macmillan began a series of pep talks designed to spur sales abroad. "We have always been merchant adventurers," he told a London audience of 400 top businessmen last week. "That is our tradition. I urge you to recruit your fellows into those noble ranks." He noted that "our German friends have coined a word, Exportfreudigkeit, or roughly 'export...
Univac & Unity. By convention's end, many a delegate had the feeling that he had been whipsawecf by a Univac in a button-down collar. But the Kennedy organization, now renowned for its attention to detail, instantly set about patching up the bruises. Johnson pep-talked a bunch of Negro leaders; Kennedy mollified the liberals by appointing Adlai Stevenson and Chester Bowles to be his agents at White House briefings on foreign affairs (but Ike himself said he would give classified information to nobody but Kennedy or Johnson). Other folks were reminded that, come to think of it, F.D.R...