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...aircraft plant set peacefully among the rolling cornfields just west of the Missouri River. He leaves his door wide open and is usually "at home" to any brasshat or buck private-somewhat as a lion is at home on meatless Tuesday. He sits immobile behind his polished walnut desk, black-maned, broad-shouldered and heavy-faced, his lips set as straight as the five rows of service ribbons on his tan uniform jacket...
...Good afternoon," barked Harry S. Truman as he marched briskly into the stuffy Treaty Room of the old State Department at 4:04 p.m. and stood warily behind the big walnut desk. The 132 reporters readied their pencils, and the match began...
Tigers & Timber. The northern mountains, covered with snow from September to March, are rugged and heavily forested with spruce, larch, birch, juniper, maple and walnut. In the forests lurk leopards wild boars, wolves and tigers. Still a menace to the northern peasants, tigers were so much a part of Korean life 30 years ago as to justify the Chinese sneer: "The Korean hunts the tiger one half of the year and the tiger hunts the Korean the other half...
...peace was a pea under Reuther's walnut shells. Quicker than the eye, Reuther switched the pea. He announced that though Chrysler's new pension offer was good (he actually had won what he asked for), other benefits were inadequate. What Reuther's statisticians had discovered was that the cost to Chrysler for such pensions would be less per man per hour than the cost to Ford, because Ford workers are generally older and have had more years of service. Even though he had got his trust fund, Reuther was determined to make Chrysler cough...
...moans about his "troubles," heard from his pinnacle of success, make some fans snicker with envy or disbelief. But the fact that his troubles stem largely from a walnut-hard competitive instinct, an inch-short temper and a worry wart as big as a baseball, makes them no less real...