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...sometimes seemed like small boys caught stealing ripe apples. Testifying at Senate hearings, they have told confusing stories and committed some incredible gaffes. The most memorable, perhaps, was Vice President William R. Merriam's explanation of why he ordered ITT's Washington files fed into a paper shredder after publication of the Dita Beard memo. Democratic Senator Sam Ervin remarked that "you could not destroy that memo because you did not have it." Merriam's reply: "No, that is right, but there might have been a lot of others in there like that...
...this means that plant and animal remains were originally converted by underground heat into the world's present reserves of oil, coal and natural gas. In Garrett's design, raw garbage straight from the ashcan would be chopped into gravel-sized pieces by an enormous shredder, then run through a dryer to remove moisture. An air classifier would separate the inorganic matter (metals, glass) from the organic (paper, food wastes). The organic matter would then be ground into a sugar-fine powder and heated to a temperature...
...Many sacks" full of such papers, Aibel testified, were then fed into a shredder. Although Aibel made the process sound like spring cleaning, it left the impression of a beleaguered foreign embassy destroying secret papers on the eve of war. It is perhaps understandable for a company to be nervous at the prospect of having Jack Anderson rooting through its files. But as California Senator John Tunney remarked, "You must realize how this looks on its face...
Three weeks ago, the bank's janitor accidentally put a box of 8,000 checks worth about $840,000 on a table reserved for trash. The operator of the paper shredder, which disposes of confidential material, dutifully dumped the contents into his machine. Next morning, after a frenzied search, Supervisor Madeline Roper found the shredded checks in a garbage can outside the bank. "I wanted to cry," she says. Most of the checks had been cashed at the bank and were awaiting shipment to a clearinghouse. Their loss posed the possibility of a bookkeeping nightmare because most of them...
...destroy secret documents, Bucher installed an electric paper shredder and a small incinerator. The burner was totally inadequate for the amount of classified material Pueblo would carry. But Bucher could not know that because he was not even cleared for access to the ship's supersecret "research" compartment. His request for either a twin-mount 20-mm. or single-mount 40-mm. cannons to defend his vessel went unheeded by Navy brass. Instead, he was issued two .50-cal. machine guns that would be useless against another ship. The basic problem, said Bucher, was money. The original...