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...investigate the possibilities expanding tutorial the Committee on Educational Policy appointed a 10-man faculty sub-committee headed by Dean Bender which then issued a 133-page report in the fall of 1950. This so-called Bender Report recommended decentralization of the Dean's Office appointing House Deans (name later changed to Senior Tutors), and bi-weekly group tutorial for all undergraduates...
...giving advice (especially to politicians) as Leontief himself. It is time to make a science of economics," he says. Economists have wasted too much time trying to advice like lawyers." He shuns Washington (he commuted bi-weekly from Boston during the war, when he was Chief of Russian Economic Sub-division of OSS), where "everyone is political." Their minds are trained to ask always, 'How to do it?' I am interested only to answer, How does it work?'" Nevertheless, he readily admits that the argument of his critics has some foundation: "No doubt, if you do want to control something...
...with the worst kind of embarrassment: within sight of Midway during the great battle with the Japanese fleet, she ran on to a coral reef and stuck. But next time out, there began the thrill of the chase and the underseas tension that were the normal climate of the subs. As in all forms of combat, the best of training was only partial preparation for the first attack and counterattack. Moving in for the kill, lining up the first ene my ship in the sights, the torpedoes crashing into the sides of the target - those things made any crew jubilant...
Submariners' Due. Submarine is packed with crackling descriptions of action. There is the feat of Commander Sam Dealey's Harder, which deliberately went out after the subs' greatest natural enemy, the destroyers, got five on one patrol, and came back to tell about it. There is an account of Commander J. K. Fyfe's Bat fish, which stalked enemy sub marines and sank three in four days. And there is the near-incredible last patrol of Commander Richard O'Kane's Tang, which sank eleven ships and was finally sent to the bottom...
Many of the officers and men Beach writes about aren't around to read Sub marine. It is unlikely that they'd have wanted much changed. Submarine Officer Beach gives them their...