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Like Noah. Most of the push behind industrial mobilization has been supplied by Virgil Couch. From his cluttered office in Battle Creek (soon to be transferred to Washington. D.C.), Couch has worked for the past ten years to coax big business into the civil defense program. The son of a Purchase. Ky., railroadman. Couch won prizes as a youngster for his wheat crops by carefully sifting the kernels through a fine sieve, so that only the plumpest grains remained. His efforts in industrial civil defense have been equally meticulous. One of his favorite maxims: "You've got to arrive...
Developing country, the power structure is vertical, not horizontal. There is a trained, educated elite who pull, push and coax the mass of the people in the direction dictated by the future. There is only one task--that of development on every front. There are a few who can teach, and many who must learn; there are those few who must make decisions and can lead, and those many who accept and follow. The political dialogue is not among equal blocs with varied interests, but between the leadership forces of develpoment, education, and eventually industrialization- and the people who will...
...which had had a front-page seat at the fight, could only wonder why Jack Kennedy had not chopped Chester Bowles down with one purposeful command, rather than set up an unseemly spectacle as he tried to coax the amiable big-thinker into quitting...
...plans just the same. The huge, multistage rocket with which Russia launched its Dognik could boost a 600-lb. capsule into orbit around the moon, and the size of the capsule can be increased by 100 Ibs. for each additional 20,000 Ibs. of thrust that Soviet scientists can coax from the boost er. Says a U.S. engineer: "The Russians probably could soft-land an instrument package on the moon within six months, and they should be able to make a manned landing within 18 months." The U.S. is hard at work on development of big new chemical boosters such...
...musician's collaborator, he was himself alive with music, using dummy tunes of his own invention to coax his words along toward a completed lyric. Hearing some of these mock-up melodies, Richard Rodgers staggered backward in amused horror, but he stood in awe, too, of Oscar Hammerstein's enduring awareness of the music all around him, from the observation in Oklahoma! that "all the sounds of the earth are like music," through The King and I's invitation to the dance-"On a bright cloud of music shall we fly?"-and ultimately to the exultation that...