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Unwritten rule said three months behind Japanese lines was the most a man could stand. The actual Marauders eventually fell apart, demoralized. The picture does not concern itself with the politics of the historical incident: only after a high-level investigation were the Marauders given their unit citation and their place among the great heroes of military history. Analyzing nothing, the film makes no point except that a godless Book of Job was written in Burma 18 years...
Heroic Snafu. To smash Festung Ploesti, U.S. air planners came up with a novel plan : a daring low-level attack that completely violated the high-level strategic bombing canons of most top Air Forces brass. The planners reasoned that a rooftop raid would give the striking B-24 Liberators an element of surprise, limit the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe, and throw off the accuracy of flak gunners primed for high-level raiders. How they miscalculated is the core of Authors Dugan and Stewart's taut and gripping tale of a disastrous yet heroic snafu - pieced together from letters, diaries...
...Absolutely astonishing," said the colo nel, who in 40,000 previous tests had found only one comparable score, that of a draftee with a doctorate. After high-level dickering, the French ministries of the armed forces and education deferred Jean from military service, enrolled him in a Lyons normal school, rough equivalent of a U.S. college...
...both Piel and C. P. Snow, Science and Government, secrecy creates a further danger necessarily limits the number of people making high-level scientific decisions; government becomes "a private affair." This is undesirable in a state ruled by democratic principle. It leads to a high percentage of unwise decisions, a tendency towards authoritarianism, or, at least complacent and uninformed voters...
...Problem of Overabundance. The Washington beat offers endless possibilities to foreign newsmen, particularly if they are fluent in English-and most are. All have ready access to high-level officials. All have at their fingertips the greatest daily outpouring of source material on earth-U.S. newspapers-and few hesitate to borrow heavily, with or without attribution. "If there is a real problem," says erudite Werner Imhoof of Switzerland's Neue Zürcher Zeitung, "it's that you are overwhelmed by news...