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...offices. Others were temporarily stymied until the old civil-service retainers showed them how to order such basic items as pencils and paper clips. The usually efficient White House switchboard got calls mixed up. And one of Ike's personal secretaries, Wave Chief Yeoman Helen Weaver (who has 20 medals as a crack pistol shot), got lost for a while on an errand between the east and west wings of the White House...
...George Fox was a hard man for any century to live with. In 17th century England, already a melee of warring religions and political factions, he founded a rudely revolutionary new movement, which became the Society of Friends. A weaver's son from Leicestershire, Quaker Fox preached "God's free gospel" loudly and with a countryman's directness. He attacked other religions indiscriminately, and the fierce pacifism of his followers was, politically speaking, highly suspicious...
Thread by thread, like the work of an insane weaver, the grotesque fabric of lies and self-accusations was assembled. At last it was finished. The state prosecutor demanded the death penalty for all 14 of the accused. The "defense attorneys" vied with each other in admitting that the case against the defendants had been abundantly proved, but they asked for leniency on the ground that their full and frank confessions had made the prosecution's task easier...
...locating the possible oil-bearing area; picking the spot to drill was easy. Says Jacobsen: "Any office boy at Amerada could have done that because you drill in the peak of the dome. As long as you stay in that area you could pick your spot by the Sam Weaver method...
...Weaver was an old driller who provided one of the industry's classic anecdotes. Some 40 years ago, his crew was about to start drilling in Mexico in a cow pasture, when one of the crew asked Weaver where to drill. Replied Weaver: "Watch the cows and drill where the first cow pie falls...