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...Pennsylvania to New England (after an appetizer of Floridian spring vacation opponents), who scrambled, hustled, clawed and manipulated their way to 35 wins against only three setbacks in the course of the spring schedule, who lacerated each new opponent with the decisive and unalterable impact of a Watergate paper shredder, who achieved, succeeded, mastered, and dominated the Eastern baseball world with a team boasting only nine seniors, with the remainder of the squad coming from the potent and cocky sophomores and juniors, the Harvard baseball team returns intact...
...scare stories about China that circulated in the '60s, especially during the brief ride of the Red Guards, was that Maoism had flung out the past: 3,000 years of willow-pattern tranquillity overthrown, Confucius and Mencius consigned to the paper shredder, and the arts of the ancestral dynasties-Chou and Han, T'ang and Sung, Ming and Chi'ing-abandoned as relics of decadent feudalism, replaced by the cast-concrete colossus of Mao or the agitprop poster of beaming, eupeptic tractor drivers exceeding their norm in Szechwan province...
...Nixon's move. Members of the committee rushed out, bought some 1,000 Washington newspapers containing the station's ballots, and filled them out in the President's favor. Then, seeing the pile of newspapers as a possible embarrassment, they fed all copies into a paper shredder...
Roberts described his powerlessness and a campaign neophyte, silently watching the professional politicians put McGovern's hard-won reputation through a shredder. He believes that the nature of decision making during the Eagleton crisis can only be explained by the fact that a Campaign organization is not so much a bureaucracy as a "very unstable feudal court, with people clearly jockeying for positions and influence in the next White House...
...disbursements from the secret fund was kept by Sloan on a single sheet of lined yellow paper. It was destroyed by a top C.R.P. official. Other relevant papers, Justice Department officials said, were destroyed by Liddy within hours after the predawn arrests at the Watergate. He used a paper shredder in the C.R.P. offices for about 30 minutes that morning...