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...bungling. Best-informed and most influential military publication in the U.S., it is studied closely from Capitol Hill to the White House (where 34-year Subscriber Eisenhower's copy* comes every Friday through the mail), from far-flung foreign bases to Washington's wire-service bureaus, which cull frequent stories from the Journal and label them "authoritative." Because the Journal has high-echelon readership (56% of its subscribers rank above Army captain) and high standards of accuracy, the Pentagon snaps smartly to attention when it barks. Examples...
...another year comes to another end, we are tempted, as an outgoing board on our final filing, to cull up all of our wise editorials (and conveniently forget about the others) and piece them together to show you what we have been talking about for a year. If we surrendered to this temptation, we would probably say something about the need for imagination (and realism) in foreign policy, boldness (and gradualism) in domestic policy, and House-ification (and money) in University policy. But that would be dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen...
...another year comes to another end, we are tempted, as an outgoing board on our final fling, to cull up all of our wise editorials (and conveniently forget about the others) and piece them together to show you what we have been talking about for a year. If we surrendered to this temptation, we would probably say something about the need for imagination (and realism) in foreign policy, boldness (and gradualism) in domestic policy, and House-ification (and money) in University policy. But that would be dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen...
...stay or to get back in quickly; e.g., by marrying a U.S. citizen. One answer to the problem is in the works-an "Evaluation Service for Foreign Graduates," due to begin soon under the auspices of the A.M.A. and other U.S. medical bodies. The idea: to cull the foreign crop by examining medical graduates on their own campuses abroad before they even buy a ticket...
...eight weeks ahead. His editorial staff-far bigger than that of most publishing houses-includes a file of 250 contributing authors, rewrite men and story "doctors," ten editors and readers. McCleery's biggest headaches begin and end with scripts. He maintains a nine-man Manhattan staff to cull magazines, newspapers, plays and book lists. "There is no such thing as a starving writer any more," McCleery avers. "There are only lazy writers, off-beat writers and hacks...