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Last January I went through the course at Stead with the RB-36 crew that I was on at the time. It was no picnic, but I saw no brutality or needless suffering on anyone's part. The instruction, demonstration and problems were pertinent and well presented, and had the invaluable effect of giving the trainees ... a good inkling of and preparation for what to expect...
...infantryman has slept in a water-filled foxhole for "hours of darkness"; frozen, greasy hamburger or spaghetti in the same condition has been eaten (albeit, without much relish) by the same infantrymen; and if anyone thinks a hot, dusty, cramped medium tank on the Sahara Desert is any picnic, let him try it; while we are about it, let's not forget the unpleasantness of a 12-in. gun turret firing support missions for the Marines. As to that which can truly be classed as torture, the effect of such methods can be materially negated by actual training somewhat...
Photoelectric eyes and electronic machines automatically tot up toll charges (top: $3 for an auto, $30 for a 40-ton truck). The 16 service plazas provide both king-size picnic areas and kid-size playgrounds. All signs have 16-in. letters legible at 900 ft.-enough for a 9-sec. reading at 65 m.p.h., the speed limit. All bridges have been built as separate twin structures; in all, overpasses span four major rivers, 38 streams, 41 railroad crossings and 282 other roadways. Result: a saving of nearly 3½ hours' driving time across Ohio...
...soon wishes he hadn't. Last week Tom Shand, New Zealand's new Minister of Civil Aviation, decided to give the bureaucrats a taste of their own medicine. He invited nine of the nation's top civil servants to join him on an airborne "picnic" to Auckland. It was a bumpy flight (the pilot had been encouraged to seek out the roughest patches of air), and before it was over, the passengers were handed landing forms to fill out-forms identical with those issued to visitors. When the queasy bureaucrats finished struggling with their own gobbledygook...
When it was all over, Tom Shand's picnic guests were herded into a meeting. Its agenda: possible ways of making things easier for visitors arriving in New Zealand...