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...participating in civic affairs with a practical eye towards public relations, raising money to meet deficits, planning the budget, delegating the tedious tasks, hiring and firing diplomatically. Throughout The Academic President is a sense that the president's job is to remedy the bad spots, await the crises, and react to problems Even when the president plans the future, he does so as a device for making the proper decision when crises arise in the present...
...Southern Negro movement. What little agitation there is--sit-ins and Freedom Rides--is largely dependent on white opinion in the North and South. The sit-ins were successful bets taken on white opinion--a winning bet, to be sure, but the movement depended on how whites would react. And the Negroes participating in the sit-ins were a narrow group of students and middle class Negroes. Martin Luther King has complained that Negro lower classes--especially tenant farmers and sharecroppers--are apathetic about civil rights and likely to remain so. They are hungry and in need, and getting them...
...correspondent paid off again-in a more handsome manner. For "distinguished"' reporting under deadline pressure, Robert David Mullins won one of journalism's most coveted awards, a Pulitzer Prize. The Deseret News, which had been aching to even the score with the Tribune,* knew just how to react: it plastered self-congratulations all over the paper. But hardworking Correspondent Mullins. who was scooped on the major portions of his story, could hardly understand what all the shouting was about. Said he with refreshing candor: "I'm stunned with disbelief...
...Cong headquarters deep in the jungles or on marshy islands. The Vietnamese high command is now listening to a U.S. veteran of Merrill's Marauders who argues for "deep penetration" battalions able to exist for weeks on end in mountains and forest. The Viet Cong are expected to react with well-planned assaults on the new strategic hamlets, but improved communications-each hamlet will have its two-way radio-will bring, within minutes it is hoped, swift reinforcements in the ubiquitous helicopters...
...address, the Secretary took off his glasses, leaned forward on the lectern, and reached into his pocket for some scribbled supplementary remarks. Then he reiterated his earlier point, "the vast importance that our people reach some general understanding of what the complications really are, rather than react from a passion or prejudice or an emotion of the moment." It was this gesture that led many members of the audience to believe to this day that the "Marshall Plan" was an impromptu stroke of genius that the General happened to toss out at the end of his prepared address...