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...Navy lieutenant in World War II, Bingham was picked to help organize the supply end of naval aviation. He did such a bang-up job that he won a commendation ribbon and was made a captain at 36. Then, in 1945, he got a call from Jack Straus: Macy's was expanding, had just bought San Francisco's old O'Connor, Moffat & Co., and Straus wanted Bingham...
...plate testimonial dinner honoring Mutual Security Administrator W. Averell Harriman and launching him as a presidential candidate. It was also a prime Democratic livestock show, with all the prize specimens on display. But one measure of the Democrats' dazed condition was the fact that the blue ribbon went to Stevenson, who had just strolled out of the pasture...
...spinning disk with the necessary letters and numbers on its rim. The machine's electronic innards translate the magnetic dots on the tape into groups of characters, 80 for each line. As the disk revolves, 80 electrically operated hammers tap the back of the paper against an inked ribbon in contact with the disk, thus printing the proper characters in the proper places on the line...
...bedroom door. He found what he wanted, a wooden stopper plugging a ten inch hole. The room's occupants helped their visitor take the door off its hinges, and with a corkscrew they removed the plug. Inside, they found a parchment tied up in an orange ribbon...
...hillside inn overlooking the George August University of Göttingen, Germany, students sat around a table one night last week drinking beer. They were dressed in their Sunday best; but each also sported a brightly colored cap, and each wore across his chest a brightly colored ribbon. These were the regalia of the Burschenschaften-the ancient dueling corporations that were banned after the war. For the first time in six years, Göttingen's corporations were holding their semester convention right out in the open...