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...beginning of World War II found the company in a peculiar position. Its communications systems were supplying information to German submarines, and its American factories were assembling "Huff-Duff," the High Frequency Direction Finder used by the Allies to save their ships from German torpedoes. This is not one of Milo Minderbinder's fast-buck schemes from Catch-22. It is, in fact, a part of the corporate record of ITT, the American-based telecommunications conglomerate with worldwide interests as diversified as smoked meats and rental cars...
Finding them may not be easy. Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense, and General Earle G. Wheeler, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both hastily denied having ordered the falsifications. Henry Kissinger also asserted no knowledge of the Air Force's peculiar reporting procedures. After considerable doubletalk, the Pentagon finally issued a public statement saying only that the falsification processes were "authorized and directed from Washington...
Controlled Chaos. "Most people I know would be terribly unhappy with this kind of life," says Mrs. Wheeler. "But I enjoy sharing things with someone whose own life-style lends itself to this peculiar situation. The times we have apart make us more conscious of the time we have together. The labors of living are totally divided by convenience. Any one of the three of us might make dinner or vacuum the house. It's a life of controlled chaos...
...second volume of the tetralogy; for its subject is right-wing rebellion and, presented in weirdly loving detail, the beauties of seppuku (ritual suicide). Camus said that "suicide is something planned in the silence of the heart, like a work of art." In Mishima, for all of the peculiar sensationalism of his death, there is a shocking aesthetic correspondence between the man's art and his final...
...most peculiar aspects of the system occur in the largest departments, specifically History, English, and Government. For years, academics have questioned the validity of subjectively grading honors theses in English, maintaining that it is nearly impossible to accurately judge the quality of a literary work. This logic seems to be borne out in the English Department. According to sources in the Department, there have been at least three theses for which one reader gave some form of summa and the other reader marked it with some degree...