Word: hopwood
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...explanation, Major General Lloyd P. Hopwood, director of Personnel Procurement and Training, said that the A.F.R.O.T.C. program is "the least flexible of our officer-procurement programs," since changes in Air Force strength in recent years have "been established in hours or at most a few months." To change the role of college programs to produce the bulk of the Air Force's career officers will require many corrections by all, said Hopwood. Then he proceeded to hit some Air Force beefs. Last year 15% of the Air Force's college R.O.T.C. units turned out only...
...possible solution, said Hopwood, is for the Air Force to substitute civilian-taught courses for some military-taught ones. This would save military personnel. The Air Force would also consider reducing the basic compulsory two-year program to one year, and cutting down the number of participating schools. But the Air Force has no intention of dropping the program. "Today," said Hopwood, "the R.O.T.C. has become really a C.O.T.C.-Career Officer Training Corps-the source for the bulk of our active-duty officers...
...factor that worries many firms is the effect the return to campus may have on the middle-aged man (average age of the executive student: 40) accustomed to giving orders. Henry W. Hopwood, assistant public-relations director at Republic Steel Corp., found that his executive study days at Harvard helped him tremendously in his job, but he points out that some men run into trouble on campus: "For Mr. Big, pulling up stakes and becoming a college boy again was an experience to which some men couldn't adjust. There were lots of little complaints-false heart attacks, failing...
...heads (which the soldiers are ineligible to collect), 2,000 rounds of ammunition, scores of hand grenades and dozens of revolvers, half-a-dozen Thompson submachine guns and a 3.5 bazooka. The British had reason to congratulate them selves, and did. Said pink-cheeked, wax-mustached Brigadier J. A. Hopwood: "It was like a jolly big shoot, and my men acted as beaters...
...Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Hopwood) is 33 years old-a bearded oldster among thrillers. But though it does its hissing through false teeth and glares from a glass eye, it is still strangely animate-a good deal of a mess, but only now & then a bore...