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...Sherman Adams, pale-faced but game, grunted: "Very nice trip." Lifted up from Washington next day, some Cabinet members were less game. Douglas McKay said he had spent the trip trying to estimate what a helicopter costs, concluded that it was "probably too much." Said White House Aide Fred Seaton: "They ought to give them to the farmers to flail wheat." Remarked Sinclair Weeks (who came by car): "I'd just as soon ride in a boiler factory." "Gratitude & Appreciation." Despite the unsettling side of "Operation Banana" -a highly successful exercise in Government mobility nonetheless-Administration leaders last week...
...sleep, tackled General Motors. Every day, flanked by U.A.W. Vice President John Livingston and Negotiator Irving Bluestone. Reuther marched into Detroit's G.M. building for bargaining sessions in the big fifth-floor conference room. Late each night they left again with no word of progress. G.M. Negotiator Louis Seaton, director of labor relations, printed and passed out to the press a card in Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Flemish. The words meant the same in all six languages: "No comment." At week's end, after a final bargaining spurt, the settlement was announced. Like Ford, G.M. accepted...
...Debate Council telegrammed the Department of Defense at that time, and urgently requested a reversal of the decision. Assistant Secretary of Defense Fred A. Seaton replied, however, that the decision was reviewed by Chief of Staff of the Army, General Matthew B. Ridgway, who upheld the directive because he thought it improper for the Cadets to participate, as they are integral parts of the armed forces...
...slatternly, embittered wife of aging, alcoholic Matinee Idol Bing Crosby. She slouches around with her glowing hair gone dull, her glasses stuck on top of her head, her underlip sullen, resentment in the very sag of her shoulders and the dangle of her arms. She looks dreadful. Said Seaton: "You know that old cardigan sweater she wears? Well, a lot of actresses would say, 'Well, why don't we just put a few rhinestones here? I want to look dowdy, of course, but this woman has taste . . .' and before you know it, she'd look like...
Bing Crosby, a little nervous himself at undertaking so exacting a dramatic role, was dubious about his untried costar, and said so. But before the shooting was over, Crosby was telling Seaton, "Never let me open my big mouth again," and talking of taking Grace out dancing...