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...slashing attack on American diplomatic methods was to go to the publisher, co-authors William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick decided the book would be more successful as a novel. They burned every page of every copy, hired four dictating machines and four stenographers, and started from scratch. They made the publisher's deadline...
...political debts-he has been his own best promoter and manipulator-and can choose his team as he pleases. Since he is not a state Governor and has no incumbent Administration in Washington to provide Democratic manpower, he would have to assemble his team from scratch...
...minors when he went into the Army in 1942. A combat engineer, Spahn won a battlefield commission and was wounded by shrapnel in the action to repair the Remagen bridge for the first troops to cross the Rhine. Spahn shrugs off both the wound ("It was only a scratch in the foot'') and the promotion ("I got it only because all our officers were killed...
...golden days of Harvard soccer are over. Nine starters from the magnificent squad that captured two consecutive Ivy League titles are gone, and coach Bruce Munro is forced to start over this fall, almost from scratch...
Some 60% of all mergers are, like Consolidated's, still within the same basic industry. But there is a growing trend toward going outside, buying new products, or new management or scientific brains, by taking over small companies. Instead of starting from scratch to set up a new computer division, for example, Remington Rand bought up two electronics firms, one of which brought along the already proven Univac