Word: shavetails
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...lobby. Inside, Grove and Moore work from 8-ft.-by-9-ft. cubicles accessible to anyone bold enough to wander by for a chat. There are no special privileges. If Grove rolls in late, he has to prowl Intel's jammed lot looking for a space just like any shavetail engineer. Craig Barrett, 58, Intel's president, sometimes shows up in lizard cowboy boots, often en route to his ranch in Montana from Japan or Malaysia. They are known universally as Andy and Craig. The just-folks culture did not originate at Intel--credit Bill Hewlett and David Packard...
...country? Why is success so elusive? Those questions have tantalized David Halberstam since he returned in 1964 from 15 months in South Viet Nam as a New York Times reporter. The answer, essentially, is always the same: from John F. Kennedy to William Westmoreland to the freshest shavetail just off the jet at Bien Hoa, "They" underestimated Ho. That is to say, they failed to understand the Vietnamese, for in his own artfully complex personality, Ho was Viet...
...Arkansas boy who graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of science degree from his home state's tiny Henderson-Brown College, McConnell went on to West Point and flying school, rose from shavetail to colonel in ten years. During World War II, he was assigned to the Southeast Asia Air Command under Admiral Louis Mountbatten, became Chief of Staff of the Air Force Training Command in the China-Burma-India theater, after the war was senior U.S. air adviser to the Nationalist Chinese government...
...joined the Indiana National Guard. When World War I began in Europe, Sergeant Major Smith reluctantly refused a commission in the Regular Army because his family could not afford to buy his uniforms. But after the U.S. entered the war, he won his shoulder bars, and as a young shavetail, he fought at Château-Thierry and in the third Battle of the Marne...
Spiritualist Ford's autobiographic apologia does not demand agreement from the reader; table rapper as well as spirit knocker can enjoy it as the record of an unusual man. Ford first noticed that he was unusual when a shavetail at Camp Grant. It was late in World War I, and thousands of soldiers were dying of influenza. Lieut. Ford had to pick up the lists of dead, and one morning he realized that he knew what the names would be before he got the lists. At a loss to explain his strange precognition, he wrote Mother back in Florida...