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...then called on the country to fight communism accurately--"with sights and a and not with a blunder base...
...writer of that editorial could not have been present at the dedication of the memorial. He would have known that the blunder did not lie in the addition of the name of the German soldier, but in the fact, which must have shocked many people that Sunday morning, that the German chaplain's name carried the totally irrelevant addition "enemy casualty." It might have been appropriate to omit the name altogether, but anyone who heard the hymns, readings, prayers and sermon that morning would have noted the great contradiction between the meanings and any inscription which would remind those dedicating...
...Blunders & Bottlenecks. Inexplicably, the mobilizers' worst blunder was one which World War II experience should have made impossible. If World War II taught anything, it was the crucial importance of machine tools-the machines which make machines, and without which defense plants cannot tool up to make jet engines, airframes, tanks or anything else. Yet Wilson failed to realize that machine tools held the key to the whole armament program. I.T. & T.'s William H. Harrison made the original blunder by refusing to treat machine tools any differently from "pots or pans," denying them priorities. Price Boss Mike...
Conspicuously missing from the All-America squad was 1951 Crimson Captain Rick Hudner who was considered far and away the best attackman in New England last year. Hudner played in last spring's North-South game, the unofficial try-out for All-America recognition, but because of a blunder on the part of officials he was forced to play at the unfamiliar position of midfield...
Americans booby trapped their own Korean policy last week, thanks to the blunder of an Eighth Army colonel. Charges by Colonel James Hanley that the Communists had murdered 5500 American soldiers prompted a series of fiery speeches by public figures from the President down. But subsequent statements from the Pentagon and General Ridgway revealed Hanley's figure as the composite of largely-exaggerated rumours, released at the worst possible time...