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...country is not determined wholly by the troops that it keeps. It is determined also by their economic, their spiritual, their intellectual strength, as well as their purely military." Britain, said he, in a mixed metaphor that fascinated the experts (see PRESS), "has had a really heroic row to hoe in trying to keep its economic nose above water." So the British are "trying ... to cut their cloth, you might say, according to what they had, and not to what they would like to have." Ike conceded that "their reduction has disturbed some of our NATO partners." But he added...
...with the Rotary Hoe THE ORGANIZATION MAN (429 pp.) -William H. Whyfe Jr.-Simon & Schusfer...
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground . . . Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain...
...Edwin Markham The Man With the Hoe...
...whitecollar mob" and the "lonely crowd" have become the objects of much nervous concern. William H. (for Hollingsworth) Whyte Jr., an assistant managing editor of FORTUNE, is the latest and perhaps the most thoughtful writer to be thus concerned. His "Organization Man" is the man with the rotary hoe-the suburbanite who is doing well in technological America. Whyte wonders who slanted his skull into a middlebrow conformation and worries that the light may be blown out within his brain...