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...winners of the Medal of Honor, latter-day fortune brought a nose dive and a rebound. A one-man army of the Korean war, Marine Sergeant Alfred L. McLaughlin, credited with killing some 150 enemy soldiers at Bunker Hill, was whittled down to the rank of private, fined $120 and given a three-month stretch at hard labor. Better able to hold a hard position than hard liquor, Honorman McLaughlin had drunkenly gotten into an armed brawl with the wrong enemy, his commanding officer, Major Henry Checklou. McLaughlin's beef: Checklou was always taunting him about that medal...
...Paramount then paid off ABC's $7,662,000 debt, put in a handful of Paramount executives, including three new ABC vice presidents. Two of them later resigned, one after he lost $1,800,000 for the company by programming college football games that got few sponsors. But Parent Paramount grumbled that Kintner never allowed ABC's Paramount men any power, that he ran ABC as a one-man show. Paramount wanted Kintner to delegate more responsibility, put together a stronger top management staff, expand his network faster...
Braucher noted that the Democratic concept of a President violates an ancient principle, and a modern one. "Present day leaders of the armed services, corporations, and government have come to realize that the days of one-man rule are over...
...Income. Though he was enjoying a $50,000-a-year income by his 40s, the restless Yankee would not retire, kept insisting: "There is always a better way of doing almost anything." He kept finding it. An inveterate fisherman, he contrived a one-man kickless harpoon gun to spear whales; a window-shopper, he invented a one-piece display lamp and reflector for shopkeepers, then founded a successful electric company to produce the unit, though he admittedly did not know the difference between an ohm and a kilowatt. He even found time to write a book on wildflowers...
...rapidly dispersable outfits, the division will be supplied with 100 Army light planes and helicopters, and provided with an airborne television system and many a new transportation device-among them the "mechanical mule," a vehicle 27 inches high and weighing only 760 lbs., and the "flying platform," a one-man helicopter in which the pilot stands on a ledge over the rotor blades and guides the machine by hand levers...