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...first requirement, without which all else becomes moot, is enough airlift to transport quickly at least four strategic divisions and all their fighting tools from U.S. staging areas to any part of the globe. To achieve maximum effectiveness and security once in the arena of war, Army planners have evolved a "cellular" -as opposed to the traditional linear-system of offense. It will permit only 2,000 men in an area occupied by 8,000 to 10,000 in World War II. Such dispersion will impose heavy demands on communications, so the Army is developing what it calls "battlefield surveillance...
...moot question whether education is purely intellectual, since Plate, and the greatest of our educational leaders have not thought so, but have put it added. "Finally how can one seriously in a moral and social context," Ulich call John Dewey's philosophy "a philosophy of barbarism," even if one is, as I am, highly critical...
...born in the last 25 years as the result of artificial insemination, with the doctor using semen supplied by a carefully chosen anonymous donor. Their legitimacy has always been a matter for speculation. A Canadian court has ruled donor babies illegitimate, but in the U.S. the question had remained moot. Last week a tangled divorce and custody case projected it into the headlines...
...They made a series of telephone calls to Joe, trying to get him to 1) apologize to New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator Robert Hendrickson for the famed "without brains or guts" remark, and 2) stay quiet and keep out of trouble for awhile. The matter of apology became moot when Hendrickson said on the Senate floor that no apology would change his mind about Joe; that it was not the affront to him but the affront to the Senate that mattered. But, McCarthy finally agreed to remain silent for 24 hours. A few minutes later he called back...
...Ames Competitions were organized in 1910 by the law students for the purpose of arguing cases in moot courts. The cases are the same sort as those on appeal at appellate courts...