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Discussion centered around the whole problem of elective versus appointive offices and the manner of election. Distinct differences of opinion arose on these questions, one group holding that the function of the Council should be that of democratic political body while the other group felt that the expert advisory character of the Council should be maintained through appointments...
Although TIME'S crowded masthead doesn't list the "Distributing Editors," their colleagues wouldn't know what to do without them. There are 100 of them altogether, deployed from the Mail Room to the Morgue, performing the time-honored function of office boys & girls everywhere. For us, they carry countless "takes" of editorial copy, distribute some 1,500 newspapers, hundreds of telegrams and messages every day; lug advertising plates to the printer, contracts to the lawyer, pick up photographs at the Customs House, turn on the air conditioning, sharpen pencils, turn off the air conditioning, ad infinitum...
...knowledge of any State Department effort to get what Editor Elliston calls a "plan" written. But Petersen defended the State Department on the grounds that the Byrnes policy was still young. He disclosed, however, that War Department representatives on SWNCC's staff had, although it was not their function, started a draft rewrite of 1067, and that the draft was now in a SWNCC subcommittee...
...killed by the gestape are Geraldine Fitzgerald, who looks like Joan Crawford, talks like Katharine Hepburn, and gives a restrained and sound performance. As the only woman member of "Applejack" she performs many indispensable tasks, such as working her wiles on German colonels, with admirable results. In fact, her function in the picture is totally professional except for a few mildly affectionate scenes with Ladd squeezed in between auto chases and gun fights...
...occupants to a centrifugal or "quasi-gravitational" force measured in additional Gs. During a "five G turn," the pilot's body weighs five times as much as normal. The Navy's gruesome merry-go-round will determine how much a human body can weigh and still function. Without a protective "G suit" (TIME, Sept. 23), the average man blacks out at about 5^ Gs. His pulled-down facial tissues make him look 20 years older...