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...over $5 billion, says Jaspan. This failure by management to police its own house, he argues, has helped change the white collar workers' attitude toward stealing from the boss, especially when the boss is not above thieving. Jaspan cites the case of a young clerk who, after several sleepless nights, finally approached his boss, a credit manager, to blurt out a confession of petty stealing. The clerk was told to forget all about it. "You see," explained the manager, "this department just can't afford a scandal. I've been embezzling for years myself...
...would think that he had committed "some terrible obscenity." Still the network would not let him clear his name by running the censored tape. The corners of Paar's mouth began to turn down. His voice broke. His eyes leaked. He had wrestled with his soul for 30 sleepless hours, he said through half-suppressed tears, and he had finally come to a lonely decision: "There must be an easier way to make a living. I am leaving the Tonight show." Abruptly he got up and did just that...
...action was an unqualified success. Few of the sleepless victims passed their next exams. Temporarily the system could relax. Yesterday, however, disturbing reports reached the central office that one of the fluorescent lights in Lamont had stopped buzzing...
...might not the creative energy of freedom be used to seize the initiative? Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles sought the answer in long, intensely personal talks (often a sleepless President picked up his bedside phone in the middle of the night to call a sleepless Dulles)?and the idea of Ike's exchanging visits with Khrushchev came up. "We began to work on this thing," Eisenhower recalled months later, "and I gave the subject to two or three of my trusted associates in the State Department and said, 'Now let's try to tote...
...Club to get a yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two recent record long-distance hops. To a bug-eyed audience he told an eye-bugging tale of a slight mishap on his nonstop flight from Casablanca to Los Angeles (7,688.48 mi.) last June, when he spent a sleepless 58 hr. 38 min. in the cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed his navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills in another. He handed what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing...