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...setting and steering the nation's course. He has succeeded in snipping away a little red tape (e.g., he shifted to the Chief of Naval Operations the chore of signing naval-officer assignment papers), but every now & then a presidential aide will hear him bark like a drill sergeant: "Why do I have to do this...
...parallel to Pentagon red tape was the drill for loading, firing and reloading a musket in the British army in the 17th century. The drill was designed to eliminate individual error and to achieve uniform rate of fire. Its 31 orders, as recorded by Robert Graves in Sergeant Lamb's America: "March with your rest in your hand! March, and with your musket carry your rest! Unshoulder your musket! Poise your musket! Join your rest to your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming...
...Panmunjom truce-talk site were over. The U.N. was taking seriously the Communist offer to discuss immediate exchange of "seriously sick and wounded" prisoners of war. Working like beavers, U.N. crews rapidly set up a processing center and a mobile surgical hospital. The hospital staff ran through a practice drill. In cases of malnutrition, the medical people were ready to stuff the returnees with calories and vitamins. Every available helicopter was standing by; two hospital ships, one U.S. and one Danish, were anchored at Inchon. A huge galvanized-iron shed was erected as a stopover for disabled Chinese and North...
Briggs Cage is a large, glass covered building, dedicated to competitive sports and R.O.T.C. drill; it in no way resembles a baseball field. So, with all the time he wanted inside and only five cumulative outdoor practice hours, John P. McInnis, one time major league star, now Harvard baseball coach is still justifiably pessimistic about his team's chances this Saturday in its opener against Amherst, and for the rest of the early season...
...proposal that the Navy excuse men donating blood from infantry drill was also made by the PBH representative and not by the Navy and we agreed to go along. As for wearing uniforms donors are authorized to wear uniforms but are not compelled to do so--no penalty is exacted against anyone who does not. Furthermore, all records in connection with the blood drive are kept by PBH workers and not by members of the NROTC staff. There never has been any record in the past and there never will be any record in the future in our files...