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Guards & Sewage. Just to service and guard this vast machine takes about 1,000 men & women. A daytime visitor no longer needs a pass to enter the building as in wartime, but some 170 security officers prowl its corridors, bar the unauthorized from restricted areas. There is but one chimney atop the Pentagon; black smoke rising from it is a sign that sergeants are busy burning classified papers...
...sign "Welcome General Douglas MacArthur" across the facade of the Shamrock, but had provided artillerymen who fired a 17-gun salute when the general got to the hotel. A $250-a-day suite-provided with two butlers in red tail coats and green pants-was ready for the distinguished visitor...
...inspiration to us all," said the studio visitor, emotionally pressing Ed Sullivan's hand. "It takes a real man to get up there week after week-with that silver plate in your head." So many other televiewers have warmly congratulated him for his triumph over facial paralysis, twisted spine and other dire but imaginary ills, that Sullivan has just about given up protesting that he is and always has been sound of wind and limb...
...made. Upperclassmen eat in baronial halls, may sit under imposing chandeliers or by an imported Burgundian fireplace, use silver sugar bowls. Yale's Divinity School looks as if it might have been moved up from Williamsburg; the university library looks like a cathedral ("Must I genuflect?" a bemused visitor once exclaimed); its main power plant is clothed in stone to look like a Gothic tower...
...Blitzleiscti) you're . . . one down (Rotzleisch).' " In his constant pursuit of One-Upness, the sound Lifeman first of all makes his opponent (i.e., everybody) feel like an idiot child, a boor or a cad (heel, if opponent is an American). To a visitor, the Lifeman remarks: " 'You want a wash, I expect,' in a way which suggested that he had spotted two dirty finger-nails." A rival talker is completely thrown off his stride by the Lifeman's "I knew as soon as I came in you were happy. You-you look so natural...