Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Staff Haim Bar-Lev. Born in Yugoslavia, like Bar-Lev, Elazar, now 48, went to Israel in 1940, soon joined the Palmach, the strike force of the underground Zionist army, and fought in the 1948 war of independence. His military career advanced rapidly as he followed Bar-Lev from command to command until he succeeded him as Chief of Staff in 1971. Last April Elazar predicted, "I don't believe the Egyptian forces have the faintest chance of winning a battle...
Despite the destruction and chaos, the Israelis seemed confident. The command post was re-established in a bunker, and fresh soldiers were pouring in. Golan Heights Commander Major General Yitzhak ("Khaka") Hofi assured us: "Our forces are essentially in a mopping-up operation. The Syrians committed their entire armored force. They wanted to take the Golan and move on to Haifa...
...inheritance. Even after Franklin, now 41, became chairman of Nashville-headquartered Genesco Inc. in 1969, father-son squabbling continued; in 1972 the Genesco board trimmed Franklin Jarman's authority by giving his father "added management responsibilities," but company troubles mounted and Franklin was restored to full command. Last week the younger Jarman displayed his authority by announcing that he would shrink the size of the company that Maxey built...
...cannot abide free-floating guilt. But scapegoats are getting harder to find these days (vide Richard Nixon and his Watergate problems). After My Lai, the U.S. Army thought they had a pretty good sacrificial offering in Lieut. William Calley-until corrosion began eating its way up the chain of command. The Army's containment plan was not helped by Journalist John Sack, who moved in with Calley for one of those total immersions that have become the baptismal rites of the New Journalism...
...artfully enlarges his vision of the System as Superscapegoat for the Superstate. Basically the book consists of profiles of four Viet Nam veterans. But it is also a metaphor that has been duly certified by such thinkers as Marx, Veblen, Jacques Ellul, Lewis Mumford and Siegfried Giedion (Mechanization Takes Command). The theme is familiar, though no less enticing for having been subject to countless cliches. The oversimplified version goes like this: As technological systems grow more complex, individuals grow less responsible for controlling the consequences...