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Most politicians run for office for the same reason that other folks run for a commuters' train: to keep their jobs or win better ones. Politics is their business, and to its fortunes they commit their education, their economic well-being and their egos. Since they are loth to admit this, they profess to hear the shrill call of public invitation. By last week the whistle was singing in the ears of several political commuters. Examples...
...best SAC crews are designated as "select" or "lead" crews. These crews are assigned specific targets in Russia or elsewhere, and must commit to memory all of the intricate details of getting on target and back to a friendly base. Members of select and lead crews usually get spot promotions to the next highest grade. But their skills are constantly being evaluated -in the squadron, in the wing, and every six months by a two-week special check by LeMay's personal examiners. If a select or lead crew falls behind in bombing, navigation or whatever, it loses...
...flames of the "burning deck" and reassuringly warmed by the support of press and public . . . Out of fairness to Congressman Velde and his com mittee, we are trying to keep straight the fact "cleared" that by we his were letter not, to in us. any The legal commit sense, tee, as we understand it, is not set up with any authority to give anyone a technically definitive "clearance." What we had from Mr. Velde was a letter to the effect that a sworn affidavit which we had voluntarily provided, because we wanted to straighten out once for all any ambiguities...
Refusing to commit himself on his present political intentions, Dever said only, "I shall announce to the people of Massachusetts what my plans are before February...
...Undergraduate Organizations on Academic Freedom had a set of procedure as cumbersome as its name. By tying itself to other College groups without conclusively establishing its position within the Committee, the Council at once put itself at a disadvantage. The Council delegate never fully understood how far he could commit the Council with the other undergraduate groups. And no provision was made for coping with inevitable problems of political partisanship which a meeting of groups so diverse as the Liberal Union and the Young Republicans would produce. As a result, there were charges and counter-charges which could only discredit...