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Free of ingrained military prejudices-as well as lacking in military experience-the Whiz Kids delight in finding new and often totally unexpected solutions even to conventional military problems. While working on guerrilla warfare, one of them remembered reading books by British-born Author John Masters, whose The Road Past Mandalay described his World War II experiences with Orde Wingate's Chindits behind the Japanese lines in Burma, got Masters to write several valuable reports on guerrilla warfare. Enthoven calculated that one Chinook helicopter could do the job-at less expense in men and money-now performed...
...mortarboard and scarlet gown, upstaging his seven fellow honorary degree winners, including U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. But only after he had been handed his Doctor of Letters degree for having given "the greatest pleasure to so many people for so many years'' did British-born Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 73, relax in a toothy grin. "I would have needed a heart of cast iron not to be moved," said he. An exile from the U.S. since 1952 and long a champion of leftist causes, Chaplin chatted amiably with Rusk, but no photographer recorded the event. "The word...
...historian outshouts the reporter in USA* 1, the explanation lies in the person of the magazine's founder: British-born Rodney C. Campbell. 37, a confirmed history buff. Campbell's sense of history, maturing during seven years as a TIME writer, prompted him three years ago to start a magazine of his own. He rounded up $1,000,000 worth of support, gathered a staff from TIME (three reporter-writers) and the New York daily press (the Times, Herald Tribune, Post and Wall Street Journal...
...British-born Jack Romagna, 51, earned his place in the White House by an early determination to become the best shorthand reporter in the business. As a boy of 13 in Washington, where his father was butler to the late U.S. Senator Davis Elkins of West Virginia. Romagna learned Gregg shorthand (and typing) in night school, spent 40 daytime practice hours a week taking down everything he heard on the radio. In 1941. when the White House shorthand reporter resigned, Romagna, then working for International Business Machines Corp. in New York...
...barber's case was one of the most successful among 25 patients in whom Orthopedic Surgeon Adrian E. Flatt has installed a total of 92 steel joints at Iowa City's University Hospitals. Some have been working well for 3½ years. British-born Dr. Flatt got the idea from Colonel Earl W. Brannon, who devised a similar steel hinge for U.S. Air Force accident victims. But Dr. Flatt has modified the hinge and adapted the technique to the knuckle and middle joints, which are most often frozen by arthritis...