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...trouble began when well-intentioned Defense Secretary Robert McNamara called Pentagon correspondents to his office for a background briefing. McNamara had done some of his homework well: he made an impressive presentation of the current state of U.S. nuclear forces. Then, like Republican Defense Secretaries Neil McElroy and Tom Gates before him, honest Bob McNamara tried to explain that merely counting missiles is not the way to assess U.S. or Russian military strength. All other weapons must be taken into account. The important thing, said McNamara, is that there should be no "destruction gap." Then, casually, he added that today...
...shown, tends to become disillusioned under the trying and often disillusioning conditions of prison teaching. For example, although a class may average ten pupils, some days only one or two will show up, and in no case is student interest sufficient to enable the teacher to make regular homework assignments. The difficulties of maintaining a course's continuity without assigned reading are obvious...
...works, as one sad assistant puts it, "as though there were no holidays, Saturdays and Sundays, and expects others to do the same." One staff officer, returning from a long flight at midnight, was met at the airport by a messenger who handed him a foot-high stack of homework and told him the admiral wanted it done by morning. Once, in a moment of rare relaxation, Felt, a crack poker player, summed up his basic attitude in a paraphrase from Mister Dooley: "Trust everybody, but always cut the cards." Hunting & Homework. Don Felt learned the beginnings of his furious...
...Lagos among the "southern barbarians," Abubakar became the protector of northern interests in the capital. Grudgingly, he went along with federal unity to the extent of becoming Minister of Works. "From the start he was the best minister of them all," recalls a British civil servant. "He did his homework and sent his paperwork through swiftly." But he remained a northerner, not a Nigerian...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union has failed to do its homework. In a leaflet distributed Monday, it called the Naval Science Department's sponsorship of the film Operation Abolition an example of that department's "inability to distinguish between fact and propaganda." Would the Liberal Union make the same charge against an Economics Department presentation, whether by lecture or film, of Marxist theory...