Word: mcdonaldization
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When the sea winds howl and the ship wallows, the smart skipper heaves to and rides out the storm. By this standard, the Navy's new Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral David Lamar McDonald, 57, is as wise as they come...
Other admirals may saltily denounce the Pentagon's civilian bosses, but McDonald tries to make friends of them. While others are unnerved by the policies of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, McDonald calls him "probably the best Defense Secretary ever." While admirals shiver their timbers in fear that Whiz Kid Alain Enthoven, 32 (who is conducting McNamara-requested cost-performance studies affecting the Navy's future), is trying to scuttle the fleet, McDonald takes him to the Navy-Notre Dame football game...
Friendship may work; at least hostility has not paid. And seldom has a new Chief of Naval Operations taken over at such a stormy time. Items: > The Navy's top command is scrambled. McDonald himself succeeds Admiral George Anderson, whose option was dropped because he disagreed too often and too publicly with McNamara. While McDonald is popular, the manner of Anderson's ousting was hardly calculated to raise Navy morale. No sooner had McDonald assumed his new post than Navy Secretary Fred Korth was fired-for writing letters on his official stationery concerning business for his old employer...
...Black Hawk second line of Stan Mikita, Kenny Wharram, and Ab McDonald has led Chicago to its present NHL lead with nine goals in five games. Mikita now leads the league with six goals and four assists for a total of ten points. The first line, with Bobby Hull and Red Hay, should also score frequently. The defense, led by goalie Clenn Hall and captain Pierre Pilote, allowed fewer goals then any other team last season...
...Wallace McDonald, director of Financial Aid at Harvard, said that Harvard would not "cheat" by increasing its application just because the limit has been raised. Peter Kay Gunness, assistant director of Financial Aid, added that he was sure that the University would get a large amount than the $250,000 it is presently receiving from the NDEA...