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After the Senate confirmed Charles Erwin Wilson as Defense Secretary, a Pentagon wag quipped: "They okayed him lock and barrel." Last week the Senate's Armed Services Committee okayed Wilson's four top assistants on the same lock-and-barrel basis-minus stock in defense industries. Then the committee recalled Air Secretary-designate Harold E. Talbott for a third round of questioning. The Senate went ahead and confirmed the other three appointees by voice vote...
...million, and has a pretty 23-year-old wife. But he didn't get all this by breaking the bank at Monte Carlo-quite the opposite. Last week "Ari" Onassis let it be known that, for $1,000,000, he had bought the 75-year-old Casino, lock, stock and roulette table, and with it, the purse strings of Monaco...
...freely acknowledges his debt. He is not a "maker of new modes," but a "renewer of old treasure." Nor does he make any pretense to profundity. All important truths, he insists, lie slumbering inside everyone. A novel or a play is merely the key that springs the lock: "Literature is the orchestration of platitudes." But Orchestrator Wilder was concerned with more than literature. He was also concerned with saying something about America. What is it to be an American? It was not until four years after the war, when he was invited to give the Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
...lock all controls on the Air Force's enormous double-decked troop-carrying C124 Globemasters, pilots have to pull up a knob on the throttle pedestal. To release them before a takeoff, it is necessary to push the knob down past four notches: the throttles are freed at the first notch, the ailerons are unlocked at the second...
Recently, when Mosler offered a booklet. What You Should Know About Safes, one request came from a burglar serving a life term in the Texas State Prison. "When puzzle locks [i.e., combination locks] were first used a century ago," said Mosler, "crooks devised the 'drag,' a powerful screw to crush the walls around the lock. When the walls were strengthened, they took to the jackscrew to force wedges between the door and the jamb. When safe doors were built with bolts that slid into the jamb on all four sides, safecrackers began blowing gunpowder around the door with...