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...embarrassing slip. Said Woodrow Wilson, from the rear platform of a 1912 campaign train: "I would a great deal rather make your acquaintance than leave a compound fracture of an idea behind me." Adds Vice President Richard Nixon: "The longer the candidate is in the field, the greater the hazard to him. No candidate wants to lay out an entire program for 1961 in January...
...Mexico's Sierra Madre. Curiously, the battlescapes are poorly drawn, and may result from Horgan's dour knowledge that the Apaches invariably melted away when confronted with regular troops. Unfortunately for the balance of his book, the weight of a growing nation and the determination of Hazard and his cavalrymen seem excessive when they are opposed by only a handful of barbaric and ill-equipped savages...
Savages & Cavalry. Setting his story n a different locale, the Southwest, but at about the same period. New Mexico's prolific Paul Horgan runs into somewhat similar trouble with his fictional hero. Matthew Hazard, U.S. cavalry officer, is coltishly appealing, brave, leathery, and a West Pointer. By page 100 he is out n Arizona Territory looking for hostile Apaches, and he should loom larger than life, but somehow he looks smaller. The real heroes are again the landscape and the history that fills...
...hero's final mission recalls the remarkable trek of Lieut. Charles Gatewood into the mountains of Mexico to talk the unpredictable Geronimo into surrendering. That surrender, as Horgan puts it, marked the end of "an Indian war that has raged since the days of Cortez." Matthew Hazard's Arizona was made safe for supermarkets and swimming pools, just as John Cozad's Platte River country was plowed into fields of immense fertility. Yet, as these books serve to recall, the land that challenged colonizer and cavalryman is still the same-still a measure...
Primarily, options are offered to spur initiative and give professional managers a sense of ownership. Says Leland Hazard, director of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.: "The stock option is an invitation to aggressiveness. It gives a man the incentive to act as an owner-manager...