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...Japanese compliance. But MacArthur himself does not travel. In nearly three years of occupation he has not missed a day, including Sundays, at his desk. Douglas MacArthur, brilliant soldier and administrator, great showman, benevolent dictator, steadfast egoist, is SCAP-although the initials as usually employed refer to the whole apparatus of the occupation...
Douglas MacArthur and all the apparatus of SCAP could do very little about this larger challenge. It was becoming much clearer to Americans that the recovery and security of one depended upon the recovery of many. That would require just as much understanding and perseverance-and probably help-in Asia as in Western Europe...
...triple play, from X rays to light rays to electrons and back to light again; it amplifies the X rays only after they have passed through the body, so danger to the patient is not increased. A pilot model has worked in the laboratory; a full-scale apparatus is now being built. Most likely uses: studying the heart's action, detecting early cancer and tuberculosis...
Other students devote themselves, equally barrenly, insofar as learning is concerned, to their studies. Such students, Stephen Leacock has observed, "all go humping together over the hurdles with the professor chasing them with a set of 'tests' and 'recitations,' 'marks' and 'attendance,' the whole apparatus obviously copied from the time-clock of the businessman's factory. This process is what is called 'showing results' ...It circumscribes the latitude of mind which is the real spirit of learning...
...right; the trouble was with the behavior of some of the men who were covered by it. When the act's apparatus did not get them what they wanted, the brotherhoods simply threw it away and threatened to use force. In 1941, in 1943, in 1946 and again this year, the brotherhood leaders had gone through the act's elaborate process of negotiation, mediation, conciliation-and then rejected a presidential fact-finding board's recommendations and set a strike date...