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...authoritarian environment corresponding to that in which the typical Air Force officer finds himself. The combined experience of drill and staff work is intended to produce an officer who as a subordinate will follow orders promptly and efficiently and who as a superior will issue them with proper forethought, timing and clan...
President Lowell introduced a modified elective system based on the principle of "knowing a little of everything well." It was expected that the plan would encourage students to give their entire College program some forethought...
...more judicial posts to fill at one time than Non-Lawyer John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Deaths, vacancies and recess appointments that required resubmission to the Senate gave him 33 jobs to fill for a start. Last May the Democratic Congress, having delayed for more than a year with partisan forethought, passed a bill providing for 73 desperately needed new District and Appellate Court judgeships. In all, Kennedy now has the power to appoint more than one-fourth of the federal bench. Since judges are appointed for life, John Kennedy's choices will have a powerful effect on the administration...
...Tempting Thievery." Instead of bold new ideas and personal diplomacy. Dean Rusk plans to bring to the foreign relations of the U.S. thoroughgoing staff work, precision and forethought. He believes that precision is needed to forestall miscalculation by enemies and friends. While he was a student in Germany in the summer of 1932, he likes to relate, a canoe that he had left unguarded was stolen. Police went after the thief, but a magistrate fined Rusk for "tempting thievery." In its foreign relations, says Rusk, the U.S. must be careful not to "tempt thievery" by failing to let the Communists...
...which he listed all the problems that he should be worrying about-"as many as 70 to 80 worries at a time," a friend recalls. Some of the worries went away, some were solved, some blossomed into full-scale crises. But the sum total verified his creed that forethought should be a foundation stone of U.S. foreign policy. In a complex and changing world, he argues, it is not enough to think about problems and challenges as they arise. "We are going to have to aim at the future," he says, "if we expect to come on target...