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Some of the flaws in the study were openly conceded by Leslie H. Gelb, chairman of the task force that managed it, in a court affidavit. He said that the people who worked on it were "uniformly bright and interested, although not always versed in the art of research. Of course, we all had our prejudices and axes to grind and these shine through clearly at times, but we tried, we think, to suppress or compensate for them. Writing history, especially where it blends into current events, is a treacherous exercise. We could not go into the minds...
...paradox and tragedy of Viet Nam, argues Gelb, was that "most of our leaders and their critics did see that Viet Nam was a quagmire, but did not see that the real stakes?who shall govern Viet Nam?were not negotiable. What were legitimate compromises from Washington's point of view were matters of life and death to the Vietnamese." How can this kind of thinking be changed? Gelb contends that a President must demand much more of his security advisers; they must probe more deeply into what really is in the national interest. The President must also take...
...responsible was Metropolitan Editor Arthur Gelb, who spotted an offbeat story in the monthly magazine of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History; the article concluded that wolves howled not to frighten people but to communicate with other wolves. Gelb assigned Schonberg to write a professional critique of the calls of the wild. After listening to nearly an hour's worth of howling, Schonberg issued his straight-faced findings, complete with notational diagram...
Story finished, Schonberg treated startled staffers in the Times city room to a few tenor and bass wolf howls of his own. Not bad,Gelb noted...
Plenty of Encouragement. Changing hair color is almost as enduring a female experience as pregnancy. Surveys show that the average woman thinks about it for nine months before she decides to change her shade for the first time. In October, when Radiantly Reds will be marketed nationally, Gelb will offer plenty of encouragement by means of TV, magazines, bus and subway posters. "Every woman should be a redhead at least once in her life," Clairol will suggest. "Some lucky girls are born red," says another ad. "Others catch up." Of its $45 million advertising budget, the company is committing about...