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...Nobody judged these claims in the light of an overall, supra-service plan based on the total military, political and economic interest of the U.S. Insofar as there was any standard for resolving conflicts and putting the budget together, the Joint Chiefs used what they called "the balanced-forces concept." This was a high-sounding name for the convenient but irrational practice of splitting the money in three roughly equal parts...
...Ozzie, 46, carries most of the load. He produces and directs the TV show, edits and cuts the film, polishes the scenarios ("I make the words sound real and natural"), keeps his sponsors (Hotpoint and Listerine) contented, and, in his free time, lectures his sons on the Eagle Scout concept of honor or takes them on for practice sessions of football or basketball. On the show itself. Ozzie's character lacks the overhead drive and adding-machine efficiency that he displays in real life. As in most other TV family dramas. Ozzie is pictured as a lovable but rather...
Much of enthusiasm which the junior retains for tutorial after his first year of it is not due to any excellence in current procedures. Most students, in a poll taken last spring, heartily approved the concept of tutorial, but were more pleased with the potential they saw in the system than with actual operation. Tutorial work, they claimed, too often lacks direction. Also, there has been little incentive for spending study time on tutorial work when the hours might mean a better grade in a credit course. Since thoughts for improving this situation have ranged from a distasteful compulsory tutorial...
...uncompremisingly opposed Mr. McCarthy." It was an inquisition in which McCarthy turned the world upside down, for Wechsler ended up "in the preposterous position of denying under oath that I had myself inspired the long series of communist attacks against me." Here indeed," he adds, "was a daring new concept in which the existence of evidence of innocence becomes the damning proof of guilt...
...century has seen a reaction which has sought to overcome the isolation of man from man by imposing upon rebellious individuals a pattern of compulsory and all-embracing state organization, with unlimited power in the hands of the civil government. Hence socialism, in its various guises . . . The Christian concept of man, however, is that he is both personal and social . . . The Christian view . . . avoids the opposing extremes of individualism and collectivism, both of which are grounded on false concepts of liberty...