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...same reasons he has shirked leadership. He has no principles upon which to base his programs. The programs are solely political. He has no principles upon which to base his foreign policy. His policy is one of sidestepping-of drift, deceit and defeat. He cannot face the glare of discussion because he cannot face the glaring questions of his fellow citizens. He talks of peace, but he has no stomach to face up to the main threat to peace -Communism...
...Secret Invasion. "Achtung!" One misty midnight in the fall of 1943, the glare of a flare illuminates a tiny trawler wallowing off the coast of Yugoslavia. "Wer geht da?" the captain of a German patrol boat bellows in his bullhorn...
...carpets on all the floors. "We know that a good teacher and a good blackboard are the fundamentals of teaching," says Leslie K. Grimes, school superintendent in Greeley. "But we also think that the good teacher can do better in a comfortable, air-conditioned room without noise and glare...
Inside, as in Greeley's other easily expandable new elementary schools, walls move to allow team teaching, small or large classes, special groupings within the classroom. The absence of windows prevents glare and helps preserve constant temperatures, and no one has yet complained of claustrophobia. Kathryn Moss, a teacher for 24 years, is enthusiastic. "I have the children to myself without window distractions," she says. "I'm convinced I'm going to teach better here because I can do so much more...
Wooing the Public. For an industry that used to take professional pride in staying out of the public glare, the effect of all this controversy has been basic: instead of concentrating on wooing only doctors, as before, drugmakers are now going out of their way to win over the public. Several companies recently joined to launch a national advertising campaign to revive the drugmakers' image, and the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association is serving up a strong prescription of publicity, in the hope that it will cure the uneasy feeling that affects the industry...