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...defending the training program against the label of Universal Military Training, Defense Department spokesmen exposed a more dangerous flaw in the proposed system. "UMT would permit youths to discharge their military obligations quickly" declared Assistant Secretary of Defense Chester Burgess, author of the bill. "The Administration program imposes lengthy military obligations on the reserve men, just as on draftees for the regular army." By requiring nine and a half years of weekly drill and summer camps from the reservists, and six years of the same training from men who have completed two years of active duty, the Administration bill saddles...
...Small-Size Adult." According to Flesch, the basic flaw in the system lies in that it "looks at a child as if it were a small-size adult." Lip reading and learning the rudimentary ABCs are taboo; the word "children" is "children" only because Teacher says so, not from any deciphering of its component letter-sounds. Result: a third-grader is "unable to decipher 90% of his own speaking and listening vocabulary when he sees it in print...
Cincinnatians read him with affectionate respect, and when he points out a flaw in the city, they hurry to patch it up. When he wrote that Cincinnati's Longview Hospital was short of wheelchairs, 18 were quickly provided. Another time, he told about the hard time a family was having after the breadwinner was sent to prison for stealing a factory payroll. Reading "Cincinnatus," the factory owner called the holdup man's wife, hired her at $20 a week, and told her to earn it by staying home to care for her children...
...replace no Government car unless it had six years and 60,000 miles of service, and he never replaced his own official car. His idea was to get a medium-priced make, at no cost to taxpayers, from among those legally seized from dope peddlers. But there was a flaw in his calculation: the dope peddlers' cars were all Cadillacs and Chryslers...
Gladstone was the son of a rich Liverpool merchant. To an erratic, explosive brain, he joined (said his doctor) a body "built in the most beautiful proportion . . . head, legs, arms and trunk, all without a flaw, like some ancient Greek statue." Gladstone's first intention was to become a parson: he never quite forgave himself for being so weak as to become a Prime Minister. Religion was not his faith; it was his spouse, and he loved it so passionately that when he felt exhausted he would say quite naturally "not that he wanted...