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...Typical of the swift reaction was the Detroit News, which got the flash from its own correspondent, Martin S. Hayden. An operator waiting at a special number for Hayden's call connected him with a waiting editor, who was holding an extra phone open to the pressroom. There printers were poised over two silent presses with plates headed IKE SAYS YES and IKE SAYS NO. After Hayden's call it took the News one minute to start rolling out extras. Elsewhere extras hit the streets in as little as seven minutes (New York Post, Long Island...
Against the all-too-real chance of revolution, Perón also had a bomb shelter and Hitler-style funk hole. Through a secret panel in the ground-floor pressroom of his downtown publishing house, a passage led to an underground vault lined with rosewood. A bedroom there had silk pajamas, an emergency supply of oxygen, and a wall safe big enough to walk into. Oddly, when investigators did enter the safe, they easily tapped out the plaster wall at the back and found a long underground escape passage leading to another office building next door...
...There was also trouble from another source last week. A three-alarm fire broke out in the News pressroom, sending 1,500 employees scurrying out on the street, and doing an estimated $300,000 worth of damage. But the News missed not an edition...
...kicked the field goal that beat Army 3-0 in the 1934 game), was the direct source of the leak ("Hell" said an old Pentagon hand, "that was no leak, it was a fire hose"). The inside dope from the Parks office, as splashed out in the Pentagon pressroom: the atomic submarine Nautilus is really unsuited for combat; it is too big, too expensive, too noisy; its torpedo tubes were added as an afterthought; its sonar equipment will not work at high speed; it has no safety features. All the criticisms were either false or distorted, and some of them...
...next day, Slade Cutter got Navy orders to go full speed astern. He had to endure the humiliation of going into the Pentagon pressroom and "leaking" the news that the Nautilus was indeed combat-worthy. When newsmen sniggered at his straight-faced efforts, Cutter said: "Well, that's the party line, anyway...