One crew puts up partitions. The other crew takes them down. The paths of the two crews seldom cross, though there have been embarrassing occasions when they arrived at the same office simultaneously on conflicting missions. But that was the fault of “inefficiency” higher up, not of the putters-up and the takers-down.
Retired brass which had come roaring back to the Pentagon found itself assigned to broom-closets because many mere swivel-chair warmers had commandeered enough office space for a bowling alley.
That’s why the Pentagon has two crews, working independently, day and night. One makes offices bigger for new brass, the other makes them smaller for the old.
The confusion is proving hard on fixed Pentagon employes. They suffer severely from wet paint.
PART TWO
THE PEOPLE
(Confidential!)
11. THERE’S NOTHING LIKE A DAME
Women are the same everywhere, except in Washington, where they not only are different, but there are more of them.