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...there is an atmosphere of bureaucratic machismo which infects decision-making and obliges everyone involved, full-time officials as well as academic consultants, to talk much more brutishly than they would in private. Not only does the government lie as a corporate unit, but each official likewise conceals his innermost thoughts and feelings from everyone else in order to be most "effective" at the right moment. For this reason, not even so extensive a collection of documents as the Pentagon Papers can adequately get at what particular officials were thinking and why they behaved as they...
...addressed chiefly to his roommate Dave Bizak, is beginning to reach a far wider audience. It is incorporated into the sound track of a new educational film that shuns the usual dull recital of facts about drugs in favor of a firsthand story about one addict's innermost feelings...
...scalding publicity and agonized soul searching that the U.S. Army had to endure in the case of Lieut. William Galley Jr., his trial and subsequent conviction did not penetrate the military's innermost defenses. After all, Galley was hardly one of the elite of the officer corps. He was one of those thousands of peripheral soldiers of ordinary background and average intelligence who slog their way through O.C.S., enjoy a career of tedious assignments in grubby outposts and never, never rise beyond the rank of colonel...
Norman Paul of Cambridge, Mass. His theory: family troubles are frequently caused not by a generation gap but by a communication gap, which family members can bridge by sharing their innermost feelings with each other...
Last week a group from the Republican Party's innermost circle sat down for a secret meeting at the national committee office to review this fall's campaign and map tactics for 1972. Among those attending: Mitchell, Finch, Rogers Morton and his brother, former National Committee Chairman Thruston Morton, House Campaign Chairman Bob Wilson and his Senate counterpart John Tower, and Leonard Hall, the architect of Dwight Eisenhower's 1956 campaign. Hall was there because he alone among the group had experience in running a campaign for an incumbent President...