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...help streamline the military, Katzenbach has worked up a new systems management school, helped the Navy start a computer institute to teach the art to all ranks. To educate the military about its impact on society, he has designed new U.S.A.F.I. courses that relate military and civilian technology back to 1750. To teach soldiers "what society thinks of them," he set up another course on 19 war novels, from Stendhal's The Red and the Black to Jules Remains' Verdun. "You sure are educating us," says one of his majors, who has read six of the novels...
Goodness Gracious. The impact of the press is mostly psychological-and Wooden is an old hand at amateur psychology. A onetime high school English teacher and a church deacon whose strongest expletive is "goodness gracious sakes alive," he plasters his office wall with poems, epigrams and posters of his own devising. "It is what you know after you know it all that counts," says one sign. Says another: "Success comes from self-satisfaction in knowing you gave all to be the best you are capable of." Success, too, is something Johnny Wooden knows about: after 16 years at U.C.L.A...
LUTHER, more performance than play, is lifted by Albert Finney's acting from the vagueness of its theology to a vital concern with a man whose purpose is more obsessive than sure, but whose impact set the Reformation in motion...
...Moses for vetoing a proposal to cover the 646 acres of the fair with a Fuller dome a mile or so in diameter. "What an opportunity missed!" says Arthur Drexler, director of architecture and design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. "It would have had the same impact on the world of design as the Crystal Palace at London's great exhibition in 1851-probably more so, because the Crystal Palace prefab pieces had classical roots, whereas Bucky's dome is totally...
...Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court-packing bill. Concerned by the rising gangster influence on U.S. politics, Phil Graham handed U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver the idea for a congressional investigation. A Post editorial campaign helped assure civilian control of the Atomic Energy Commission. Measuring the paper's direct impact on Government, the late Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the London Daily Mail and other papers, once said: "Of all the American papers, I would prefer to own the Washington Post...