Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of honor that many graduates of West Point [Dec. 27] often display is one of the most reprehensible aspects of that institution's mores. In Viet Nam, I have seen an otherwise extremely competent squadron commander (West Point graduate) allow an extremely incompetent troop commander (West Point graduate) to continue his command so that he could accumulate his six months of combat command duty. This while his incompetence was killing young American soldiers...
Hipness notwithstanding, he liked to talk about the time some Germans pinned him and his squad in a village in France, and how he kept his cool while the men under his command lost it, and how he killed those Germans in the face of horrible odds. He would not have fought for America right or wrong, but he revelled in the one time in his life when America was clearly right and there was a definite enemy, a dominator of foreign soil, a threat to himself and his buddies...
Tarkenton's extraordinary records, his longevity and hardiness-he has missed but one game because of injury-his utter command of the 100-yd.-long environment of football and his success outside the game would seem to leave him with few challenges. But there remains a restlessness in him, a relentless drive. "The problem I have with life," Tarkenton has written in his autobiography, "is that I have more things I want to do than I have time to do. I'm talking about a deep involvement. You can get it on the football field, of course...
...REGULATING BUSINESS: "We rely on market incentives to bring us food, shelter and clothing, but abjure the use of incentives when it comes to producing clean air, occupational safety and improvements in urban transportation. We segregate our approaches to social organization into two watertight compartments−command-and-control techniques for public intervention and economic incentives for the private economy. Yet there is a spectrum of alternatives between the two extremes waiting to be created through the public use of private incentives...
...less than 30% of the time, as against a mere 6% for Tip O'Neill. To offset these political liabilities, Wright has precious personal assets. He is a good listener, ever ready to help his colleagues. When he chooses to speak 'out, he displays a good command of rhetoric. Wright has defined his future role as that of a builder of bridges between differing Democratic factions. With a ready smile below his high-flying eyebrows, Wright has a personality that wins him friends among men who disagree strongly with his ideology. But when he does differ with Speaker...