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...survey, led by Philip E. Jacob, social sciences professor at the University of Pennsylvania, reports that "the chinks in the moral armor of American students are most obvious...
...tests last year of National Guardsmen in summer camp and Army recruits completing eight weeks' basic training, 25,000 Guardsmen drawn from all 27 Guard divisions were ranged against 7,000 Army recruits in such soldierly accomplishments as scouting and patrolling, defense against armor and the use of the gas mask. Guardsmen outmaneuvered the Army in dismounted drill, a Guard specialty, and night training (in which neither group scored high). But overall, 84% of the Army recruits passed the tests satisfactorily, compared to 56.5% of the Guardsmen. The inference: Guard recruits would benefit from six months' active-duty...
Weeds & Wages. Jessop's business of high-grade steels for high-speed tools had gone to pieces in World War II, when it concentrated on defense items, e.g., armor plate, failed to recover its peacetime customers. By 1948 Jessop was almost bankrupt. Then in came a new boss. Frank B. Rackley, 33, whose blacksmith father had encouraged him to read and believe Horatio Alger. While working as a $13-a-week office boy in Pittsburgh, Rackley studied metallurgy at night school, was named Western manager for U.S. Steel's stainless and alloy division when still...
Across desert marked by the charred and twisted remains of Nasser's routed armor, the Yugoslavs churned slowly forward in their shiny, U.S.-built trucks. Because the Israelis had sown the roadside with mines (and neglected to provide any maps), the patrols seldom made better than two or three miles a day. One burly lot of Yugoslav Communists pitched their U.S. Army pup tents beside the road over which Joseph and Mary once fled with the Christ child into Egypt, and played volleyball in the freezing gale. Beside their tents they laid white-pebble signs in the sand: "Zivio...
TIME was when the maintenance problem of armies consisted of little more than shoeing horses and hammering out the dents in a knight's armor. But in today's supersonic and electronic age, the task of caring for a stable of increasingly complex weapons and equipment has become a major problem for the military, and a challenge and opportunity for private industry. Of the Defense Department's $7 billion maintenance budget in fiscal 1956, nearly $1.4 billion was for overhauling, and a fourth of this went to U.S. business for its part in maintaining the nation...