Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President has undeniably failed in some signal tests of executive performance. He has not built a genuine "Johnson team." Curiously, more first-rank Kennedy men have stuck it out with him than have the men whom he himself brought into the Government, notably Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti, George Reedy. Johnson, moreover, has failed to perform the crucial executive function of charting a clear course for the future. One top economist complains that Johnson's close-to-the-vest method of operation, perfected during 24 years in Congress, has left major institutions stumbling around in the dark on vital policy...
Quiet Confidence. The choice between the generals was not an easy one. Each had a clique of supporters actively rooting for him. Noting that Chapman was senior in time-in-rank to Walt and Krulak, Johnson remarked: "One man said you could flip a coin and any one of three or four would be ideally equipped...
After three more months of Communications and Methods of Instruction at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Sloan volunteered for Vietnam but instead was shipped to Munsan-ni, Korea because he didn't have the rank to get to Vietnam. After nine months in Korea and a promotion to SP4, Sloan again volunteered for Vietnam and finally made it to Can Tho in the Mekong by April...
...rest of the section along with her. Oboist Carl Schlaikjer was shaky in the second movement, but recovered by the sixth and spun out some of the most mellifluous, well-shaped line I have ever heard. To the flute, Mahler has given a number of improvisatory, melismatic solos that rank with Debussy's writing for the instrument; and principal Michael Tabak must be the original Chinese flute...
...likely to make a lot more wrong guesses than right ones. Dean K. Whitla of the Office of Tests shows in an essay soon to be published that for the Class of 1968, there is just about no correlation between admission to Harvard and such factors as SAT scores, rank-in-class, and predicted rank list. The correlation between admissions and the personal factor is better than 90 percent...