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...East Germans had other plans. Since the chairman's job was mostly honorary, it made little sense to engender bitterness among Ulbricht's admirers by stripping him of his last shred of power...
...levers, dissidence grows, the possibility of a military coup becomes more real, and Hanoi may be tempted to continue to stall. Saigon could even return to the chaotic days of revolving governments that followed the overthrow and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. And that would almost certainly shred any remnants of U.S. sympathy with the Viet Nam involvement...
...only way out of the mess, decided Bank President Ralph Comstock Jr., was to reconstruct each check, shred by quarter-inch shred. So the workers began their chore, segregating the slices by color, length, width, signatures and amounts, then matching and pasting the checks together one by painstaking one. More than 2,000 checks worth about $300,000 have been reassembled. To speed things up the bank is now planning to spread the work into two shifts. Even so, it will be weeks before the job is finally completed...
...family. But Teddy lets his wife go whoring with both his brothers, and collapses into an impotent pile of ashes as he watches her make love to them. As he packs up and goes back to America, leaving her to begin a new career as a professional floozy, every shred of hope for some sanity in the play goes with...
Fortunately, a new technology of profitable recycling may soon emerge. In Delaware's New Castle County, for example, a company called Hercules, Inc. has plans for a remarkable plant that would gobble up anything from beer cans to tires, shred the stuff into small chunks, separate the different materials, and disgorge salable granules of glass. steel, aluminum and shredded paper. Organic wastes would be turned into a rich compost. Useless refuse would be incinerated, or "pyrolyzed"-burned in virtually airless furnaces. The state of Delaware has put up $ 1,000,000 of the plant's $10 million building...