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Although he often gets in bed by 9, he is apt to get up and write down plans he has been mulling over. Aides keep nine pads and pencils scattered at strategic points around his quarters. He frequently hands a sheaf of notes to one of them when he turns...
...weekly press conference with the wary, tight-lipped air of an actor awaiting the first overripe tomato. Too often, recently, he had gone in poorly prepared, fumbled his answers, and been needled into embarrassing admissions. But this time Presidential Press Secretary Joseph Short had equipped him with a sheaf of prepared statements, briefed him thoroughly on important questions, and even hooked up a wire recorder in the red marble Conference Room to help spot the reasons for Harry Truman's bobbles-and to settle any arguments over exactly what the President said...
...roads lead to wealth and glory," wrote the author of Don Quixote, "that of letters and that of arms." By 1569, Miguel de Cervantes, 22-year-old son of a footloose, impoverished doctor, had already taken a short stroll down the road of Spanish letters with a sheaf of verses under his arm. Although he managed to get a few of them published, he looked in vain for wealth and glory, finally came to a decision: he would follow both roads and double his chances...
...Army Base, stubby buildings stained black from the smoke of South Boston. One floor of one section of these buildings has been equipped for the processing of inductees; I arrived on that floor at 10 a.m. with a group of about 30 of my contemporaries. We were given a sheaf of papers and seated at two long tables, each sectioned off into cubicles with plywood screens. At the far end of the tables there was a sergeant sitting at a low desk. He was reading a newspaper...
...head of the Chinese procession strode General Wu Hsiu-chuan, director of the U.S.S.R. and Eastern European Division of the Peking Foreign Office. Waiting at the airport customs shed Wu & friends found Russia's Jacob Malik. As he gave Wu the glad hand, Malik drew a sheaf of papers from his pocket and handed them to the Chinese leader. A few minutes later Wu distributed the same papers among waiting newsmen. On each sheet was a copy of what purported to be Wu's own first public statement to peace-loving people...