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...John W. Gardner, LL.D., former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Your inspiration brought talented men and women to a weary bureaucracy...
This, in turn, would require sluggish bureaucracies to respond more rapidly to social needs. John W. Gardner put it best at Cornell's commencement earlier this month, when he imagined himself as a 23rd century thinker. He had discovered, he said, that "20th century institutions were caught in a savage crossfire between uncritical lovers and unloving critics. On the one side, those who loved their institutions tended to smother them in an embrace of death, loving their rigidities more than their promise, shielding them from life-giving criticism. On the other side, there arose a breed of critics without...
...Gardner's dire diagnosis may or may not be overstated. What is beyond dispute is that all too many of the nation's most creative leaders are perishing, and that the trend must be checked by a national restoration of reason rather than emotion...
...some 1,800 houses in that area. What a timesaver it can be was demonstrated by U.S. Army Major Ronald Dubois, a Viet Nam veteran, who was assigned to the Pentagon. After following up several leads only to have his hopes dashed, he consulted Falls Church, Va., Broker Reba Gardner. She put their problem to Realtron...
They wanted a four-bedroom house with a family room, near the Pentagon, a good school, church and bus line to Washington, D.C. The computer had the answer. When Reba Gardner called the broker selling it, he exclaimed, "My God, Reba. I just got that house a few minutes ago." An appointment was made for Major Dubois to see the house first thing the next morning. By 11 o'clock the deal was closed...