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...keen young officer trained for occupation duties was asked at Guam last week whether he thought the enormous, complex job of changing Japan could be done. His answer: yes. He was asked whether he thought the U.S. would in fact succeed in doing it. His answer...
...soldiers do not get along well together. Both sides display suspicion and belligerence. Minor altercations, especially at night when the Russians are quick on the trigger, have been frequent, considering the small number of Americans in the city. In addition to language difficulty, the Russians have a definite inferiority complex. Said one officer to a group of correspondents: "You cannot call us ignorant. After all, we captured Berlin and Vienna and we know how to find the best restaurant in town...
...core idea has its roots deep in the problems of U.S. democracy. In the most complex technical-industrial society of all time, American learning has spread out to encompass everything from electronics to eel husbandry-and the common body of tradition and culture that once bound men together is by & large getting a cursory dismissal as "useless" and "impractical...
...long as war orders have to be met the 'bottleneck' problem will persist. There will be shortages of ... raw materials . . . of one component or another ... of key machines. There will be labor bottlenecks. . . . The task of breaking down these bottlenecks in our complex industrial organization is not insurmountable, but we are now learning that it is difficult and timeconsuming...
...Father Complex. Horatio Alger never even wrote an outline for the novel, although he was still dreaming about it when he died (1899). In fact, Alger never succeeded in freeing himself from his father's domination, never quite grew up. At the age of 50, he still liked to play with blocks. He sometimes disguised himself in a long cape and a tousled wig and went wandering through Manhattan's streets - in search of material, he said. He preferred the company of bootblacks and match boys to that of adults. He liked to beat the big drum...