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i HE Administration Building is Wheaton’s Washington where all the proceedings of this minor nation originate. All day long the hum of the mighty machinery is heard: drawers open and close, typewriters clatter, bells ring, and every two minutes a clock jumps forward with a loud “‘click.”’ At night when rest settles over most of the world, a tiny rosy light near the dome of the capitol testifies that inactivity finds no companion there. The OPM, an old organization with a new appellation, has become recently the center of much excitement. Fortunate weekenders descend by droves on Secretary Barker, waving priceless reservation notices from the Pioneer, and colored slips of paper that read, not “weekend leave,” but “Saturday night privilege.”’ From the inner room of this office, a blushing young thing emerges, wearing from ear to ear signs of “‘permis- sion granted”’ to take a month off and get a new lease on life. Rushing into the sanctum sanctorum goes a bundle of determination who has a sister equally determined to hold her wedding two days before vacation, and she too emerges wearing that “‘permission granted” look. Secretary Remick steps over from the President’s office to confer with anyone who knows anything about the vanished lamb-chops Wheaton used to be so proud of, but no one seems to know. Sitting this one out Tense moment Last line defense Sunny-side up Sunning here too Day off “How d’you do?’’ Walking on air Naval secrets
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The OWI' down the hall where the clicking clock exercises has outbustled the larger office since the gas shortage has grown shorter and the bus lines longer. Not only are conjectures—the result of a puzzled scru- tiny of a time-table—confirmed here, but also the most up to date schedules conforming to the most recent Government orders are hidden in the office safe to be consulted on request. Night and day the switch- board tingles with calls from hundreds of Private Hargroves. ‘The morale side of the pomp and circum- stance of battle conducts its manoeuvres across these busy wires. The Office of Wheaton Information guarantees that all data are conveyed absolutely un- censored and unoverheard. Equally crowded and equally popular is the Post Office department downstairs. Here optimistic groups may be heard chanting to powers unseen, “Any more R’s? Are the T’s out yet?” From somewhere out of sight the oracles deign to answer their petitioners with classic ambiguity, and then, after a while, there is only the noise of tiny cage doors being slammed and excla- mation-point descriptions of the day’s postal cargo. Suddenly complete silence settles over the P.O., but this state does not continue long, for now is the ‘Time when the Mentors of the nation descend to open their little boxes and slam the little doors. Most of them find a bundle of communications awaiting them, and at the sight, strangely enough, they groan, and then draw out ten course election cards, five late assignments, one late term paper, and a request to scout air planes from one to six. Captain Perry, behind the bookstore counter, tosses a painfully cheerful greeting to her civilian friends and a verbal reminder of the weekly Sg ERNE conditioning class. a ay Day after day, hour after hour the Administration of i building rocks with action and resounds with the ringing : =F of phones, the clatter of typewriters, and the clicking of the great Clock. Like a mighty machine Wheaton’s Washington proceeds, hiding beneath this bustling ex- terior an efficiency most administrative capitals dream of but never realize. Information please How’s this? Back to nature Where’s Merrill? Pinch-hitting Bargain day is every day
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