Word: accountably
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Less Than the Full Facts. Fulbright was not exactly polite in his attacks on the Administration. He was also disingenuous when he complained that a naval officer, still unnamed, had been given a psychiatric test because he doubted the official account of the Aug. 4 attack. A psychiatric test is a standard, if seemingly excessive procedure in the U.S. military when a lower-ranking officer questions the statements of his superiors, and the Navy was not necessarily trying to muzzle its critic in this case...
Because of the sloppiness and negligence of the pre-award stage, the last safeguard for the Defense Department is a post-audit. The DOD, however, generally neglects to post-audit any of its contracts, and has purposely avoided post-auditing Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contracts. (FFP contracts account for $22 billion in procurement!) In the past DOD failed to post-audit FFP contracts not because it didn't have the authority--the Truth in Negotiations Law gave them the authority--but because there were no internal regulations requiring it. Under intense Congressional pressure, McNamara finally established such regulations last October...
Ostensibly, the piece is journalism (whatever that means). It is a long, digressive, discursive account of how Mailer (he refers to himself, his protagonist, in the third person throughout) gets invited to this March on the Pentagon, and how he goes to Washington and marches on the Pentagon and gets arrested for "transgressing a police line," as he tells a reporter (me, in fact), and how he goes to jail and gets tried and gets out of jail and goes home and decides to write about his adventures for Harper's Magazine (hello, Norman Mailer...
...only 24, Chicago-born Author Watson helped solve the structure of the heredity-determining DNA molecule, a major feat for which he and British Scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins eventually shared a Nobel prize. Now, 15 years later, he has written a highly literate day-by-day account of his experiences (the title is drawn from the spiral-staircase shape of DNA). The book will lead readers to important discoveries of their own: scientific research is not necessarily the calm, orderly process so tritely portrayed in modern legend, and scientists are all too human...
...objection to all this, hinted at parenthetically a moment ago, is that Lichtheim never offers a satisfactory account of the relation between ideas and social movements. He has an intuition of "tensions" between first-rate thoughts which beat about inside first-rate heads and the societies within which they function. "There must be some correspondence between the collective experience of a culture and the way in which this experience is generalized in thought," he remarks a trifle desparately...