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...eleven herbs and spices that gives the chicken its distinctive taste. To get at the formula, either man must first use a secret key to open a strongbox that contains a combination. Then they use the combination to open a vault at the Louisville headquarters that holds a fireproof safe. After opening the safe, they face a strongbox with another combination lock. The handwritten recipe is inside the box. In one final attempt to thwart thievery, the combination to the last lock is concealed in an executive's memory...
...floor tiles and metal alloys contain asbestos, as do a whole host of plastic articles ranging from frying pan handles to playdough. The asbestos-cement industry is a principal user, employing asbestos in the fabrication of shingles, insulation and plastic board, pipes, roadways, sidewalks, asphalt and almost every other fireproof or high-friction cement product. No satisfactory substitute has yet been discovered...
...Army skydivers flutter to a gooey landing in the infield. Then a preacher leads the drivers in prayer and the rhine-stoned Carolina Dogwood Festival Queen bestows a kiss on Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver's door, which, for safety reasons, is welded shut. At 2 p.m. the starter says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." The 30 drivers rev up their 500-h.p.-plus monsters, creating a thunder that pierces the cotton stuffed in drivers' ears. After...
...even if it is as accessible as a Sears, Roebuck catalogue. In The First Circle, Novelist Solzhenitsyn scathingly described a prison research institute run by Soviet intelligence where American magazines that were sold to anyone in the U.S. "were here numbered, bound with string, classified and sealed up in fireproof safes, out of reach of American spies." The result, for the CIA as well as the KGB, is an astonishing amount of make-work and the accumulation of vast amounts of material that simply cannot be digested?even with computers reminiscent of Len Deighton's The Billion Dollar Brain constantly...
...secret. Says Florence: "Classification has become as automatic as putting a period after a sentence. Individuals at all echelons in the department practice classification as a way of life." It is an expensive practice, too. Florence estimates that it costs the Government millions of dollars a year for safes, fireproof filing cabinets, storage space and guards-not to mention the man-hours that are wasted...