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...After each J.C.S. meeting, an officer and a non-com from a special Pentagon nine-man destruction unit empty the secret wastebaskets into a paper bag. They also tear off the scratch papers on the J.C.S. pads, removing the top three or four sheets which, while they probably have no writing on them, do have impressions from the sharp pencils. All this material is catalogued, put in safes for ten days. Then it is taken to one of the basement incinerators in the Pentagon and burned. The ashes are pulverized into dust-thin particles. Then a destruction statement is signed...
...told, the Roommate is a disturbing but bearable sort, besides which he is Necessary. He may steal your butts, scratch your records, drink your liquor, date your girl, and rattle your tender nerves; but he is Necessary. When choosing yours, be sure to experiment carefully beforehand. After all is said, the Neanderthal method may prove the surest. Chacun a son gout...
...deal, sold 75,000 as fast as he could make them, even though buyers had to scrounge the tubes on the black market. To expand, he leased a city-owned grazing meadow and put up four small frame sheds. Says Grundig: "It was a great chance to start from scratch. We inherited no inefficient plant layouts, no tradition that had to be respected...
...needed a vacation. During the Middle East and Hungarian crises he had developed a nervous habit of awakening at 4 or 4:30 a.m. to jot down on a scratch pad the ideas that were flickering through his mind. When he first arrived in Augusta the wind was chilly, the skies were grey, and his golf score-usually a good thermometer of his physical and mental tone -was infuriatingly high. He suddenly realized that he was very tired, and planned a careful schedule to replenish his strength. By last week the clouds had cleared, the temperature rose into...
...radio sponsor have phhht. Happened four weeks ago, even before his splituation with TV, because sponsor, Seaboard Drug Co., feared consequences of columnist's "long series of offensive remarks" about Adlai Stevenson on his weekly newscast. Sponsor kept it quiet to give Mutual time to dig up fresh scratch (WW's weekly take: $5,000), but Winchell began sniping at Seaboard Drug in newspaper column. Sponsor exploded. "Malicious, libelous and untrue," said Seaboard President Harry Patterson. "The man has gone...