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Four workers are assigned the sole task of replacing the 600 light bulbs which burn out each day. Another four are professional clockwatchers; their job is to keep an eye on the master control panel on which 4,000 Pentagon clocks are synchronized. Carpenters pedal from job to job on bicycles. The day's waste paper (ten tons of it, not including classified material) is trucked away and sold for an average $80,000 a year. In an outlying building, the sewage is processed and tidily packed for use as fertilizer on the Pentagon's surrounding lawns...
Juvenile Jury (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBCTV) has a panel of five moppets who solve such special problems as what a little girl should do with a horse she won on a giveaway show (the consensus: sell it). After five years on radio, most of the juvenile jurymen are sufficiently grooved in show business to upstage each other, mug heavily at every wisecrack, and slip effortlessly into a Scotch Tape commercial...
Chronoscope (Mon. 11 p.m., CBS-TV) sets out to find "the truth in the vital issues of the hour," a fairly large order for a discussion panel that sits for only 15 minutes and is repeatedly interrupted by commercials for Longines-Wittnauer watches. The resident truth-seekers are Veteran Newsman Frank Taylor (former managing editor of the late St. Louis Star-Times-see PRESS) and Newsweek Contributing Editor Henry Hazlitt. As guest performer on the opening show, Admiral William Blandy doubted that the Soviet Union would start a war, but urged "anticipatory retaliation" whenever U.S. Intelligence indicated that Russia...
...darkened room at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel this week, newsmen watched a large, opaque, glass ceiling-panel suddenly light up, flood the room with a mellow glow. There was no bulb or fluorescent tube behind the glass panel, yet its whole surface glowed evenly...
Listeners at the Saturday conferences also heard a panel on price controls in which David McCord Wright, well-known professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, urged that in order to produce the goods the country needs, the nation must reduce the consumption level...