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...delayed victory. A journalism major at Kent State, he switched to English when the chairman of the journalism department told him he could not write and would never make it as a reporter. For a long time, it seemed that the chairman was at least half right. As a cub reporter on the Toledo Blade in 1957, Fitzpatrick freelanced a story for a competing paper. He was fired. At his next job, in Lima, Ohio, he recalls that "I was writing a column in which I said that bowling was stupid and that bowlers were stupid. The publisher told...
...Robben] Fleming [of the University of Michigan, who acceded to black students' demands for the enrollment of 900 black students by 1971] buckled under to a few squads of kid extortionists. As for the vigor of my criticism of President Fleming, it was conscious-based on the old Cub Scout theory that the best way to put a tough coat on a marshmallow is to roast...
...sportsman who in his spare time flies a vintage black Spitfire with red propeller. A Sabra (native Israeli), he learned to fly in the Royal Air Force during World War II. In 1947 he returned to Palestine, where he bombed Arab positions by dropping hand grenades from a Piper Cub. Weizman took over the air force in 1958 and fought for appropriations against tank-minded generals in order to build it into the superb offensive weapon that knocked out the Arab air forces within the first hours...
...Cub Scout Pack. Once in, the salesman-typically an ex-farm boy, gas-station attendant or school dropout-receives Beyer's brand of inspirational leadership. "You think of what a psychiatrist does or how a good father brings up a child," he says. "If a salesman does something terrible, we convince him that under normal circumstances he would never have done that, that he's a much finer person than that...
...salesman's spirit flags. "The manager's whole life, his home, his wife, his family, become the center of social activity for that sales force," says Beyer. "An army is disciplined out of fear; our men are disciplined out of loyalty to a leader, like a Cub Scout pack would be. A man cannot have the choice of whether he comes to the Saturday meeting or not. He wants to come." Vacations? "We think working for us is having a vacation...