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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Designing guided missiles is vastly more difficult than designing "inhabited" aircraft. A new model airplane has a pilot on board to correct its maiden errors, and (if all goes well) to bring it down intact for study and improvement. Guided missiles depend on artificial brains which need to be tested themselves, and they are seldom recovered except as a mass of wreckage. To test a new missile by the cut-and-try method of actual flight is expensive not only in money, but also in more precious time...
Like Patton, Walker believes that generals should visit the front constantly and take their chances in battle, not only to see (and correct) what is going on, but to encourage the troops. Like Patton, he believes in assiduous visits to the wounded (but not to "battle fatigue" cases). Patton always insisted that the officers around him wear neckties; now, in tieless Douglas MacArthur's area, Walker often goes without...
...gruff George Marshall who sprinkled a dash of salty reserve on Benton's enthusiasm. "Something has to be done," he said, "and it has to be more dynamic . . . We have had a military conquest, but it is not lasting. There is a confusion of the mind. How you correct that I do not know unless it is by some such method as this...
...each of the test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example: 0. The President of the United States...
Truman, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3?standing for Truman?has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet...