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...Leadership can be developed and improved by study and training," General Omar Bradley once told a class at the Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kans. "But don't discount experience. Someone may remind you that Napoleon led armies before he was 30 and Alexander the Great died at 33. Alexander might have been even greater if he had lived to an older age and had had more experience. In this respect, I especially like [the] theory that 'judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment...
...enemy. He had seriously damaged his credibility in 1906 with a photograph purporting to show him atop Mount McKinley-an assertion that has never been satisfactorily proved. His last great misadventure was as an oil-stock promoter in Texas, where a mail-fraud scandal got him five years in Leavenworth...
...only one doctor. Chicago's Cermak Memorial, which lost its hospital accreditation this month, depends almost entirely on part-time physicians. Even federal prisons, which tend to be better run and better financed, are short staffed. Three of the four doctors at the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., which has 2,100 inmates, plan to leave at the end of the month. Many prisons must rely on untrained inmates to screen patients or perform medical services. In Alabama, unsupervised prisoners have been drafted into service to pull teeth and perform minor surgery...
...insult the surgeon, and into his place went Singer Robert Goulet to take over the show. Said Goulet: "Don tripped over his tongue on the tennis court." ··· "Business and money are no longer my gods," said a chastened Billie Sol Estes as the gates of Leavenworth closed behind him in 1965. They still aren't, this time by order of the U.S. Board of Parole. Estes, whose artful swindling amassed a paper fortune of over $30 million before he was convicted, is now out on parole after serving more than six years of his 15-year...
...Fort Riley, Kans., 634 Army "re-trainees" are now getting an eisht-week course that stresses military (358 hours) and motivational (143 hours) training. "It's the same Army," says one former Riley inmate, "but it's better people." At the Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks, activities include a thriving Jaycees chapter, plus training in computer programming, color-TV repair and silk-screen processing...