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...president of the Tredway Corp. is a man out of the same mold as Bullard. Yet he realizes, which Bullard did not, that the presidency may turn him into a kind of machine with no soul beyond the corporation. Nevertheless, he can't resist the challenge of the job and the temptation of the ever-expanding frontier. Says he: "We talk about Tredway being a big company now. It isn't. . . We have about 3% of the total [market]-that's all, just 3% ... Suppose we get 15% of the total -and why not? . . . That...
Ridiculous, you say. No unit could take over its cadets that way, and none of them want to. Though correct, this whitewashes the problem. By its very nature, the ROTC must create as much esprit de corps as it can. But by its nature as well, the University must resist this, for fear it will impair the spirit of questioning and debate so essential to creation of inquiring minds. The clash in purpose will remain so long as the United States is engaged in a cold war or hot peace. Obviously, then, miniature Eiscnhowers are needed to operate the local...
...short, says Dr. Carmichael, higher learning has fallen for "the cult of objectivity, [which] has resulted in a generation of irresponsible intellectuals, of men without convictions. As a warning, Germany is cited. There scientific learning reached its peak . . . Yet it was also there that the leadership . . . was unable to resist a fanatic who led the nation to a ruin more tragic . . . than that suffered by any other in modern history...
...June 26, 1950, when he threw his weight behind the U.N.'s decision to resist Communist aggression in Korea, Trygve Lie became anathema to the Russians. After the U.N. extended his term until 1954 the Russians snubbed him at meetings, addressed all their communications to the Secretariat...
...position on the recent steel strike. I would like too know whether the government in the future will honestly mediate rather than take sides. We have seen his two major labor speeches follow the labor boss line completely and this after he had told the American Legion he would resist all pressure...