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Then, while Lila reads, Wallace walks up a winding staircase to his medieval-tower workroom. Beneath its hewn beams, soothed by soft music piped in from a control-panel below, he works, usually till midnight, at the sprawling mountain of manuscripts piled on his desk. Memos have been known to molder in the pile for years, before Wallace got around to scrawling in the margin: "Sure. Go ahead. Wally." But the stuff he regards as important does not linger there long. Next morning, Wallace loads his completed work into his briefcase and careens off to the office in his battered...
...surprises me also to see the charge of "sophomoric antics" coming from Mr. Gregg, who was expelled from the Young Republican Club for alleged vote-buying, and who was involved last year in a minor scandal in which a dictaphone was hidden under a pile of inconspicuous dirty laundry...
Dave Gregory is set for his best season in the two mile. The six-foot-three cross country captain should pile up quite a few first place points, and what with sophomores Hal Gerry and Emil San Soucie and senior Steve Sharp showing well so far, Jaakko expects this to be one of the team's strongest events...
NATO (12 nations), meeting in Rome. The rank and brass of the North Atlantic alliance assembled in what used to be known as the Foro Mussolini, a flamboyant pile of buildings, Gargantuan statues and stone slabs commemorating Fascist triumphs. Heading the yoman U.S. delegation: three cabinet members (Acheson, Lovett and Snyder) and the nation's top ranking soldier, General Omar Bradley...
...hailed a byproduct. British nuclear scientists have learned how to heat a building by tapping the heat given off by a reactor. Beginning this week, a building with 80 offices at Harwell's research station will have central hot-water heating, piped in from the nearby experimental atom pile...