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Willing & Witting. As head of Monetary Research, Harry Dexter White had one of the most remarkable personnel gimmicks in Washington. His funds did not come from Congress, but from profits of the $2 billion revolving stabilization fund. This enabled him to hire his staff without the usual civil service red tape. As a result, he surrounded himself with many employees who might not have passed even the loose scrutiny of the day. Some of them took refuge in his agency after having security-clearance trouble in other jobs; at least five of them later ducked behind the Fifth Amendment, refusing...
Difficult to Hire Instructors...
...Carl himself was always in trouble, always trying to cheat someone, always bragging about how he would one day make big money without working. When he was eleven, his mother, trying to keep him busy and out of scrapes, paid the local telephone company to hire him as a lineman's helper. The experiment failed, and Carl was shipped away to Kemper Military School at Boonville, Mo. When he got into more trouble, his mother pushed him into the Marine Corps. He went AWOL, explaining later: "I'd rather be in jail than in the Marines...
Nevertheless, the Review Board branded Radulovich with the stigma of disenrollment for security reasons. This means that his future as a physicist will be limited to positions of little trust and less national value. The government does not hire physicists whose loyalty status, even by implication, is poor, and private industry is almost as severe in awarding choice jobs. Despite his personal clearance, and seven year service in the Air Force Reserve, to many people his release will always be tantamount to a dishonorable discharge. And he will always be considered a security risk...
...systems which would be more likely to infuriate than elevate a man of first-class talents. Many of the systems put a premium on conformity, and the best executives are frequently nonconformists. Furthermore, the companies with such huge training programs that they boast "when we retire a chairman we hire an office boy" are apt to be too inbred; they miss the new blood and new ideas that the occasional hiring of executives from outside would bring. And while a whole cult of "executive-grooming" counselors has sprung up', one of the leading counselors candidly concedes that many companies...