Tidbits & outrages
Tidbits & Outrages Let's Go Interface Lunch Add the phrase "jobbed in" to your collection of Washington jargon. This is how we overheard it in a conversation between two well-dressed men walking...
...Smith, who was presented at the Bachelors Cotillion in Baltimore, is a g r a d u a t e of Middlebury College...
...Union Carbide has been running ads asking: "What can you make from 'energy...
...Smith of West Point, N.Y...
...Some of the modern things we would not have without superior engineering, according to the ad: "elevators iron lungs kitchen stoves long-distance calls central heating...
...cash registers Apollo modulesroller skates Not to be outdone...
...Witness this wedding announcement from The New York Times: "Brig...
...He found it open, with tools and wires scattered on the floor...
...wigs hockey pucks doorknobs and dog...
...stretch pants puzzles football pads welcome mats dune buggy bodies stuffed animals desk organizers swizzle sticks electric scissors disposable lighters Frisbees fake furs tote bags guitar picks decoys...
...Passing through a coded-entry "blast door" into his division's office, he found a phone line lighted—even though the office was empty and no phones were off the hook...
...U.S.A., and Mrs...
...An April 12 wedding is planned at Fort Lewis, Wash., where the future bride is commander of Headquarters Company, Ninth Signal Battalion...
...You May Now Salute the Bride We are in a time of social transition...
...Since, his division worries about Mob wiretapping, he checked the telephone junction box...
...Capt...
...In Case of Fire, Break Glass, Remove Fire-in-Progress Form, Complete, and Mail to Department of Fire' A Justice Department official who handles sensitive i n f o r m a t i o n about the Mafia went to his office late on a weekend night recently to retrieve some papers for work at home...
...We can't send a guard to your office without authorization...
...Frederick Adair Smith, Jr...
...Tidbits & Outrages Let's Go Interface Lunch Add the phrase "jobbed in" to your collection of Washington jargon...
...This is how we overheard it in a conversation between two well-dressed men walking through Dupont Circle: "It would have been a great opportunity to recycle the report we did last year for HEW, but frankly, Mark, I'm so jobbed in, I didn't have time to impact the decision-making...
...Does this mean Congress has included itself in the fiscal austerity being decreed for the rest of us...
...The security desk's response...
...have announced the engagement of their daughter, Capt...
...Among those listed: "eyelashes tent pegs no-wax floors credit cards...
...Not quite...
...John Michael Ward, U.S.A., son of John Thomas Ward of Gait, Calif., and Patricia Byrne Ward of Arlington, Va...
...Without petrochemical raw materials, the ad continues, we would be deprived of thousands of essential items...
...Sorry, you'll have to call your supervisor...
...Katherine Lorraine Smith, U.S.A., to Capt...
...And They All Wear Self- Service Elevator Shoes There are 130 elevators in the complex of buildings serving t h e Congress, but there are only 90 elevator operators...
...The perpetrator may be here right now, he explained breathlessly...
...She studied at the Signal School at Fort Gordon and the Airborne School at Fort Benning, both in Georgia...
...There Would Still Be Advertising, However Recently the National Society of Professional Engineers held its annual convention, accompanied by full-page newspaper ads asking: "Ha\e you ever stopped to think about the superior engineering which makes modern existence possible...
...Unaware that routine phone work had been left unfinished at quitting time, he called building s e c u r i t y and asked for guards...
...Most of the elevators are built for self-service operation...
Vol. 12 • May 1980 • No. 3
