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...memory. He works, as one sad assistant puts it, "as though there were no holidays, Saturdays and Sundays, and expects others to do the same." One staff officer, returning from a long flight at midnight, was met at the airport by a messenger who handed him a foot-high stack of homework and told him the admiral wanted it done by morning. Once, in a moment of rare relaxation, Felt, a crack poker player, summed up his basic attitude in a paraphrase from Mister Dooley: "Trust everybody, but always cut the cards." Hunting & Homework. Don Felt learned the beginnings...
...else it is frozen into ice, thereby separating out the brine, and then remelted to obtain a pure product. The Ionics system, developed by Executive Vice President Walter Juda, does neither. It is an electrical process that exploits the natural attraction of opposite charges. Ionics uses a 4-ft. stack of 18-by-20-in. plastic membranes, 1/32-in. thick and 1/25-in. apart, between which the brackish water circulates. When voltage is applied across the stack, positively charged ions of impurities are drawn through one set of membranes, while negatively charged ions go through the other set of membranes. The concentrated...
...come over--they use women more over there--with a package wrapped in brown paper about this big." Here he chopped with his hands, cutting off a piece of air the size of a large loaf of bread. He continued, "You'd unwrap it, and there would be a stack of ruble notes. You would both look at it for a moment or so and then wrap it up again and march off to a bank and deposit...
...Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Robert Stack begins his second year as Government Agent Eliot Ness, battling with the oldtime Chicago mob in one of TV's most successful shows...
Travelers who have seen such strikingly dissimilar buildings as Cairo's Nile Hilton hotel, Los Angeles' disc-shaped Sports Arena. Abilene's stark Eisenhower museum and Hollywood's Capitol Records Building (which looks like a stack of records) would be hard pressed to say what all had in common. The answer: they were all designed by Los Angeles' Welton Becket, a Jack-of-all-styles architect who can run up a pancakelike auditorium or a soaring office building-or any of several dozen other styles and treatments-with equal ease...