From the Editor Inside the Beltway

I just returned from Washington, D.C. Nothing fascinating about that, I know, but this trip was a bit different than most. Among other things, I spent some time with senators and then visited one of the most high-security places in the nation: CIA headquarters.

And it was all in-plant business.

First, I attended the swearing-in ceremony of Bruce R. James as the 24th United States Public Printer. Hundreds of guests thronged the Senate Caucus Room in the Russell Senate Office Building, the very room where the Army-McCarthy and Watergate hearings took place. It was an elegant setting in which to welcome James to his lofty position as head of the Government Printing Office, the country's largest in-plant.