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...change anything in the Na-a-vy is like punching a featherbed. You punch it with your right and you punch it with your left until you are finally exhausted, and then you find the damn bed just as it was before you started punching. -F.D.R., as quoted by Marriner Eccles...
...what the world needs more of. It is disarming and somewhat startling to find a celebrated soldier, whatever the specific merits of his wartime role, writing without an ounce of embarrassment in praise of prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude, honor, courage and truthfulness. His aim is to define the na ture of leadership, and he believes that all those qualities-together with sincerity, selflessness and the ability "to master events"-are necessary ingredients. Unfortunately, Montgomery never conies closer to a real definition of leadership than this catalogue of virtues...
...discussion at this week's meeting in London of the ten-nation Development Assistance Group which includes the U.S., Japan and key European nations is a U.S. idea for industrialized nations big and small to pledge approximately 1% of their combined gross na tional product to foreign...
...courtesy to a former prospective occupant, the White House switchboard has been handling any calls for Richard Nixon that come to NA 8-1414. Kennedy Administration telephone operators would ring Nixon's unlisted number, pass along the message, or connect the caller if the family approved. The service is now at an end. Nixon has changed his telephone number without telling the White House where he can be reached...
...through Author Durrell's pages like the mythic club member of some eternally tipsy Olympus. The Fon also regaled Durrell with a pidgin-English account of Queen Elizabeth's tour of the neighboring realm. "Dis Queen woman she get plenty power. She walker walker she never shweat. Na foine woman...