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Ordered to ride herd on IBM development is Brigadier General Bernard Adolph Schriever (rhymes with beaver), whose mission is hidden behind an obscure title -Assistant to Commander, Air Research and Development Command, Western Development Division-at a West Coast address. Born in Bremen, Germany 44 years ago. Schriever became a U.S. citizen in 1923, graduated from Texas A. & M. in 1931, enlisted as an air cadet, left the service to become a Northwest Airlines pilot, returned in 1938 to be a test pilot, went to Stanford for mechanical engineer training. During the war he became top maintenance...
Action & the Herd. Lindner sees two main symptoms of this change...
...youth today has abandoned solitude in favor of pack-running, of predatory assembly, of great collectivities that bury, if they do not destroy, individuality. Into these mindless associations the young flock like cattle. The fee they pay for initiation is abandonment of self and im mersion in the herd . . . This innovation can yield no social gain. For it is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived. In the crowd, herd or gang, it is a mass mind that operates-a mind without subtlety, without compassion, uncivilized...
...Throw away the comic books," "Close down the TV stations," "Return to breastfeeding," and "Get tough with them." But, he adds, "really to understand what is happening to youth requires psychological knowledge. Both the basic tendencies of modern youth-to 'act out' and to drift into herds-are symptoms of a psychiatric condition, worldwide in scope, related di rectly to the social and political temper of our times. There is only one mental aberration in which these two symptoms coexist: in the psychopathic personality, essentially antisocial, conscienceless, inclined to violence in behavior, and liable to loss of identity...
Novelist Louis Bromfield, a deft-penned agrarian reformer who has made a fair amount of money by writing about saving the soil and such to make farming pay, auctioned off his 60-head herd of purebred Holstein dairy cattle, which had browsed at his famed Malabar Farm in northern Ohio. Reason for the sale, at which bids were alarmingly low: dairying didn...