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...prefer watching professionals exert themselves, the Braves and the Red Sox cavort at least once daily, the horses run every day except Sunday, and the midget auto cars are only a short way out of town...
...Practice for the Army Tests" put it: "To get the job you want or to become an officer you don't have to be a college graduate, belong to 'society' or exert political influence." To the uninitiated reader, both manuals picture armed services in which every man is continually taking tests by which he rises rapidly upward to the proper level in the job for which he is most suited. The theory is beautiful...
Since most readers of this review are prospective college graduates and may even have a bit of "political influence" to exert here or there, these books are not aimed at them. Yet they can be helpful--their usefulness being in inverse proportion to the amount of knowledge a man facing induction or enlistment already has about the services...
Spokesmen for universities should exert their influence to secure the inclusion of a new educational "G.I. Bill" in any military training act which may be passed. George Giblan 4G Teaching Fellow in English
...must stake its future on sea and air power, not land power, which could be sucked into Europe and Asia and be destroyed. U.S. sea and air power should be made strong and flexible enough to balance all the military might Russia can assemble, flexible enough to exert great control over "the rest of the world and over the enemy country." Said Taft: "If the Russians realize that that power cannot be challenged and can do real damage to their own nation with the atomic bomb and otherwise, their purpose of military aggression may well wither and peaceful relations...