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...hate reformers," Professor Herold Christian Hunt once said. "Anybody can go in and cut a new deck, and do almost anything. It takes an administrator to go in and change the thinking of the people who are already there." In more than 30 years in the field of education. Hunt has repeatedly proved his ability both as an administrator and as a reformer. Last week President Eisenhower asked him to do it again, appointed Hunt to the post of Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...from Avellino, some 30 miles inland from Naples. Recalls Gerard: "We were on a flat-bottomed scow, maybe like the Staten Island ferry, if you know what I mean, but I thought it was the greatest ship in the world. I used to go up on the deck and look at the sea and dream we were all going to be rich." Carmine's mother, Marietta, was born in New York of Avellinan parents, and a shrewd, enterprising girl she was: by the time she married at 17, she had bought a couple of horses, hired some drivers...
Four hundred sailors, each with an acceptable silhouette, assembled on deck while the officers poked into every recess of three destroyers (the U.S.S. Hollister, Isbell and Knox). In a steel locker near the after stack of the Hollister, an officer found the stowaway: blue-eyed, barefooted, 24-year-old Elizabeth D. Talk, rigged in pale blue pedal pushers and a well-filled blouse...
...below. Boiling ahead of the trade winds, the white-hulled yacht climbed wave crests and planed down like a surfboard. The mainsail boom sliced dangerously through the sea. One night Crewman Bob Carlson dreamed that a mast fitting had broken and dumped the boom overboard. He awoke, went on deck and found that the fitting of his dream had indeed worked loose. A bit more stress and the boom could have gone to complete the nightmare...
...night the force sailed Author Fuchida was knocked out of his air command by an emergency appendectomy. But early on the morning of June 4, he climbed shakily to the flight deck of the flagship Akagi to see his boys launch the first strike on Midway. He watched the carriers easily brush off first retaliatory attacks by land-based Marine and Army planes. Then: "A lookout screamed 'Hell-divers!' I looked up to see three black enemy planes plummeting toward our ship. Some of our machine guns managed to fire a few frantic bursts at them...