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...growing forces, will become an all too clear menace within five years. Even so, the unconventional admiral argues that the immediate key to a strong and effective Navy lies in the kind of intelligent and motivated manpower it can attract, rather than in its machines. "If we must err," says Zumwalt, "it should be in favor of people rather than hardware...
...curb false advertising. Until now, the FTC's cease-and-desist orders permitted false or deceptive promotions to continue until all arguments had been heard by commission staffers, a process that usually took years. In the end, the advertiser signed a consent agreement promising not to err again. Last year a group of George Washington University law students argued that the FTC should take a much harsher stand and force offending advertisers to confess in their ads that they had lied. In two proposed orders, the FTC did just that...
...find yin-and-yang everywhere is to err with the man who knowing that computers thought in only two positions (on/off, light dark, 1/0). concluded that all the world thought in complement. (The computer counts in binary, whereas we do it by decimals: anyone who doubts the superiority of the human mind may wonder. at this fact.) So let us drop the theme of vin-and-yang, except to quote the frontleaf and the backleaf...
...unsophistication, he argues that only whites hurt blacks. Presumably, after almost 21 years of the Nigerian civil war, even his eyes should be a little wider open than that. One insufferable assumption of the play is that anything the U.S. does in the world is unvaryingly venal. Now to err is human, and since Americans are human, they err. But to imply that all their motives in world affairs are malignant, avaricious and murderous is surely to show a strong and unrealistic bias...
...Laird's passion. He is good at the craft. His ready informality, which encourages even the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior men at the Pentagon to call their boss "Mel," fits the vocation. So do his competitiveness in debate and his skill at cloakroom orchestration. Cartoonists err who portray him as a maniacal Strangelove, fondling a missile as if it were a kitten, or as a bullet-headed robot. His phiz, indeed, is a public-relations problem. The high, balding dome over intense eyes and small features makes him look a bit like Hubert Humphrey, minus H.H.H...