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...contact with students on more than purely decanal lines, then the position will become one of great importance. And only then will the goal of centering students' intellectual activities around the Houses be realized. If they are not such men, then the position will be nothing more than another cog in the University's administrative machinery...
...cog in the uncovering of dope smugglers...
...Cog. The average Pentagon officer, unless born to paper-pushing routine, is apt to be a dissatisfied man. In the brassbound Pentagon, there are more admirals than ensigns, more generals than second lieutenants. The most common rank is lieutenant colonel or (in the Navy) commander. Before he was ordered to the Pentagon, a typical lieutenant colonel might have been commanding an antiaircraft battalion in Germany, with 31 officers and 723 men under his command, along with several million dollars' worth of guns and equipment...
...Pentagon, he becomes an anonymous cog in, say, the Reserve Components Branch of the Organization & Training Division in the office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations. He exchanges his comfortable rent-free house in Germany for a six-room row house in Arlington County which he has to buy for $23,000 because no houses are available for rent. His $632-a-month salary barely covers his expenses (some captains have to drive taxicabs at night to make ends meet). In the Pentagon he finds that a lieutenant colonel rates lower than one of his own first lieutenants...
...contradictory. He is more of an individualist than soldiers of other nations, and at the same time he is far more conscious of, and dependent on, teamwork. He fights as he lives, a part of a vast, complicated machine-but a thinking, deciding part, not an inert cog...