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...Ministry . . . contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level and corresponding ramifications below. Completely did [it] dwarf the surrounding architecture. . . . The Ministry of [Health] was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. It was a place impossible to enter except through a maze of barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barrlers were reamed by gorilla-faced [workmen] in black uniforms...
...stations were ready to follow Glenn's three orbits. In the Atlantic, three flotillas of ships were patrolling back and forth to pick him up at designated landing spots. The Atlas-D rocket had been checked out by an engineer who slowly swung his way up through the maze of pipes and valves that form the missile's innards...
...than do the S.A.O. terrorists. The prefect of Oran hides in an apartment on the top floor of a 15-story building that can be reached only by taking two separate elevators and passing through a complicated maze of locked and guarded doors. The prefect of Algiers and his staff dodge from one hiding place to another, frequently changing cars and routes. The top Gaullist administrators have abandoned Algiers and huddle together at Le Rocher Noir, 25 miles away, behind three rings of barbed wire, defended by armored cars. S.A.O. spies are everywhere. Last fall, the French government sent...
...employees in Britain and more than 52,000 abroad. The combined company would control some 25% of Britain's production of paint, more than 50% of its plastic film, and 90% of its output of man-made fibers. Overseas the firm would do business through a maze of satellites in 40 countries, including a $10 million Courtaulds viscose plant near Mobile, Ala., chemical companies in six South American and twelve Asian countries. Presiding over it all would be I.C.I.'s Chambers, a wine merchant's son who was educated at the London School of Economics...
...years since Charles II organized the Post Office. Britain's blue uniformed postmen have made their appointed rounds despite highwaymen, Hitler's bombs, and a maze of pettifogging postal regulations that run into several thousand pages of fine type. Last week, by the trick of working strictly according to the rule book, British postal workers who want higher pay came close to strangling the Royal Mail in red tape...