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Many scholars, moreover, think that ecumenical experimentation has just begun. Dr. Lynn Leavenworth, director of theological education for the American Baptists, last November proposed a consolidation of Protestant-and even Catholic-seminary resources. "It makes no sense," he said, "to have Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian seminaries. I am looking for the day when seminary graduates will no longer be headed for this or that church's work...
Westmoreland belongs to the age of technology-a product not only of combat but also of sophisticated command and management colleges from Fort Leavenworth to Harvard Business School. The son of a textile-plant manager in rural South Carolina, Westmoreland liked the cut of a uniform from the time he was an Eagle Scout. Though he never made the honor roll at West Point, he was first captain of cadets (class of '36) and won the coveted John J. Pershing sword for leadership and military proficiency...
...future Chief of Staff tried in vain to win an assignment at Georgia's Fort Benning, was even turned down as an R.O.T.C. instructor by several universities. So Johnson went back to class himself, toured the Army's ground force schools and spent a year at Fort Leavenworth's Command and General Staff College. Then, in 1950, came Korea-and overnight the Army needed every combat officer it could muster...
...proved so capable an administrator that in two years he was picked for the high-powered job of Chief of Staff of NATO's Central Army Group in West Germany. In 1960 he returned to the U.S. as boss of his alma mater, the Staff College at Leavenworth. Three years later, Johnson was ordered to the Pentagon, became deputy chief of staff for military operations, a post in which he helped pave the way for the buildup...
...when Alphonse Bertillon introduced a system of anthropometry involving some eleven bodily measurements of each criminal. Fingerprinting, long a form of signature in the Orient, was introduced to Europe by Britain's William Herschel, and it had to compete with anthropometry until 1904, when two prisoners at Fort Leavenworth were found to have identi cal features, practically identical anthropometric measurements and identical names: Will West. Only their fingerprints were different, and within seven years only fingerprints were accepted in civilized communities as the ineradicable mark of criminal identification...