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...with a new two-year program. The college sophomore may devote six-week chunks of two successive summers to a leadership-oriented, genteel version of Basic Training, and in the next two years give up only enough time to take four half-courses in ROTC and two hours of drill each week. He graduates, spends two years in the service...
...amount of clamor from Harvard's dissatisfied cadets will ever change drill. The ROTC euphemism for it is "leadership lab." Cadets simply endure most of it, for two hours every week. But those who have a chance to take charge and lead the drills say that it is trickier than it looks, and does give them a certain amount of confidence in their leadership abilities...
...vaudeville shows go, it might have been conjured up by Ed Sullivan on an LSD binge. Right there onstage in living, quivering color, a formation of UFOs performed an aerial ballet. A chap in fluorescent lemon leotards wrestled with a space-age cobweb. Next came a drill team of Martian types outfitted with glowing lampshades, then seven creatures in baggy sacks who squiggled like giant amoebas in heat-all to the otherworldly twaaang, ratatatat, whizzz and kapow! of electronic music. It was called Vaudeville of the Elements, Choreographer Alwin Nikolais' latest excursion into the twilight zones of modern dance...
Trim, tanned and fit as a Marine Corps drill instructor (he won a Silver Star on Iwo Jima), Lawyer Ickes speaks six languages, has been a Davies lieutenant ever since Davies took him on as general counsel for his American Independent Oil Co. in 1950. The two work together like the barrels of a shotgun-as is only natural. It was F.D.R.'s curmudgeonly Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, Raymond's father, who picked Davies to be wartime Deputy Petroleum Coordinator when he was a vice president of Standard Oil of California. In part because Davies had so faithfully...
...efficient, seasoned crew, mostly Norwegian, and its stout red-mustached skipper, a veteran of 36 years at sea. By contrast, the Castle was commanded by a green Greek who received a stinging rebuke for negligence from the U.S. Coast Guard for, among other indiscretions, holding no fire drill for his passengers and being among the first to leave the ship...