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...soon as the search was sufficiently underway, the sheriff drove Johnnie and me back to the police station in Lone Pine where we could spend the night. Adrian had hitched to pick up his car 20 miles away, and we hoped that he would find us in Lone Pine. Eventually Adrian found us, eating in the only restaurant open in that kind of small western town. We stayed up until 3:30, again rehashing everything, occasionally wondering about the men. Not until we'd been asleep for an hour, at 4:30 a.m., did the all-night monitor reveal anything...
When the real shooting starts, are the folks on the home front prepared to be told of gal grunts and female flyers coming home in pine boxes? Unless Americans can handle that, all the peacetime combat training in the world won't be worth a spent bullet, because the G.I. Janes are going to stay home...
...officers; they are sergeants and lieutenants who worked their way up within the department. All joined the department as patrolmen. Now, Chafin has provided them with the means to improve their supervisory techniques through three-and one-week intensive courses at the nearby Babson Command Training Institute and at Pine Manor...
...learned about what tribe we all fit into, tribalistic, selfish, cognitive," Sgt. Dougherty, who took the Pine Manor course, says as he drives down Francis Ave. "285 to base...Out of service at the Sachs Estate," he radios in. "The behavioral sciences are good to study--it helps you deal with people. We all have a different way of our fuses going off. It's like a step ladder-we either revert to the lower level or we rise to the higher one. Cognitive is what I'd like all people to be--a cognitive person will...
...currency is doing to the global structure of finance. Says Michel Grare, trader for Credit Lyonnais, a major French bank: "It's very worrying if one can't believe in the U.S. What, after all, is Switzerland? It could be fragile." Not a few money traders openly pine for the pre-1973 days of fixed exchange rates, when their business was quiet and orderly - much less profitable, to be sure, but infinitely less tearing on the nerves...