Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Army Gen. Hugh B. Hester, ret., has said that ROTC is self-defeating because, in anything, ROTC programs distract students from more useful study in regular Arts and Sciences courses. Because of their rank and because of time wasted on ROTC courses of little value, ROTC graduates, Hester wrote this summer, often prove more difficult to train in complex technical skills than do regular college graduates new to the military...
...lure of Cambridge and John Kenneth Galbraith he could only entice a limited number of stellar swimmers into the Cambridge-Harvard web, who realized reluctantly but perceptively nonetheless, in two years where others had taken more, that he could never rise above seventh or eight in national swimming ranks if he maintained his Cambridge residence, who foresaw that the prospects for a new and dynamic East Coast swimming program featuring his stocky shoulders and butch cut standing, thrusting out above the crowd, was just too much of an unreality when he wanted waking, sleeping, pacing, instructing wanted above...
...tumult and exclude all but highest-priority matters from his attention; such tough-minded devotion to long views is, White decides, the stuff of history. At that time, he writes, "my judgment . . . would have cast Richard Nixon as one of the major Presidents of the 20th century, in a rank just after Franklin Roosevelt, on a level with Truman, Wilson, Eisenhower, Kennedy." Six days after White left the President, James McCord's letter to Judge John Sirica blew open the Watergate coverup. In evident distress, White writes: "I was to be brought down from Olympus to consider, with...
...this litany, Watergate would seem to rank not as Richard Nixon's seventh but as his 17th crisis...
...biggest of this year's labor-management confrontations-U.A.W. negotiations with Detroit's Big Three for a new wage contract covering 700,000 auto workers before the old pact expires on Sept. 14. The workers seem to be in a better mood than in 1970, when rank-and-file anger at being left behind on pay led to a disastrous 67-day strike...