Word: leached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more serious difficulty began to plague Leach. He and his instructors had virtually no materials with which to start, since the program was definitive. The only books Leach could use were those in his personal library. To meet this problem he began in the spring and summer of 1954 to piece together press clippings relative to various fields of defense work...
...show the possibilities of such a collection, Leach categorized all those dealing with Eisenhower's "New Look," announced in late 1953 and used as the basis of the fiscal 1955 defense budget. He took the collection to the Air University at Maxwell Field, Alabama, because he thought it might be of interest to students in the War College there...
...clippings, organized to show how one year's policy in a certain area is formed, included reports of Congressional hearings, budget figures, and commentary to connect the material. Leach asked Air Force officials to publish a book using this material, since both he and the War College could use it for instructional purposes. The Air Force obliged and reproduced the collection in a 600-page volume. Leach received 12 of the books, partially solving his problem. Students filled the remaining gap by selecting and mimeographing readings for each week...
...Leach also needed lecturers to put students in closer touch with the situation. He approached friends in the Air Force and asked them to supply good lecturers for the course. They replied in a cautious letter, promising "everything they could do without harming the Air Force." But in the end, Leach neither asked for nor received a single Air Force lecturer. Supposing that half the others he asked would decline, he asked twice as many people as he needed. Not one turned down the invitation, and Leach was faced with twice as many lecturers as he needed...
...Leach also had to teach his two regular courses on property at the Law School, in addition to all the problems he had in straightening out his new program. The strain became so great that in February, 1955, he had to "just go away for three weeks." By then the program was firmly established...