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...basic tool of the industrial mission is the informal seminar. In Detroit, for example, the mission conducts conferences in the offices of labor unions and such firms as Ford and Chrysler, where labor leaders and executives meet to talk about their job problems and dis cuss theoretical examples with down-to-earth application. A typical moral issue that they are asked to solve: Your boss has been exaggerating the results of your department. During his vacation, you have to file his reports. If you tell the truth, he's on the spot; if you don't, you become...
...there was any lesson to be learned from 1965's hodgepodge of off-year elections, it was precisely this one: that the American voter is becoming a more independent cuss every year, focusing on issues rather than ideologies. Evans believes the G.O.P. would do well to remember this in 1966-and beyond-and urges the party to minimize its philosophical feuds and turn its energies toward solving problems. "We must not be the party that forever gets E for excellence in defining the problems," he says, "and F for failure in coming up with the solution...
...Marine fighter pilot in World War II, a Medal of Honor winner, a two-term Governor of South Dakota. Apart from the fact that his strongest cuss word is "criminy," there is nothing about Joe Foss, 50, to suggest that he is a pushover. Yet that is apparently what the owners of the American Football League figured after they elected him commissioner in 1959. They wheeled and dealed behind his back-maneuvering franchises, swapping players, conducting secret, premature drafts of college prospects...
...Gimmicks. There is an almost machinelike singlemindedness about him. His most vehement cuss words are "darn" and "dad-gum." A jut-jawed six-footer, he never smokes, drinks little, swims and plays tennis to remain at a flat-bellied 180 Ibs.-only 10 Ibs. over his cadet weight. Says Major General Richard Stilwell, commander of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in Thailand: "He has no gimmicks, no hand grenades or pearl-handled pistols. He's just a very straightforward, determined man." Few who know him doubt that he will some day be Army Chief of Staff...
...from his given name, Billy, has never taken it back. Not all of the paper's hands found the scholarly-looking cub a welcome addition. "Just what we needed," grumbled one. "A part-time college boy with neither whisky nor whiskers-one you can't even cuss in front...