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Thomson discusses the problems of "executive fatigue" and the inertia and "curator mentalities" of many officials as crucial factors in our Vietnam and larger Asian policy. He tells of the "domestication of dissenters" (one employer, Thomson wrote, used to refer to him as his "favorite dove"). And he describes the "effectiveness trap" which "keeps men from speaking out, as clearly or often as they might," in order "to preserve their effectiveness" as another factor leading to the kind of freezing of ideas that is so prevalent in Washington...
...subordinates, the director of social workers for Aid to Dependent Children. This young woman, responsible for perhaps 1,500 families, would not state whether there was a policy on family planning or not. She was extremely defensive and would not even discuss whether her social workers, when asked, would refer the woman to her family doctor. I asked whether, in lieu of policy, a tacit prohibition arose; she would not answer...
...sanitary facilities in the other two. The government also holds several hundred prisoners who have been arrested since the coup on such charges as distributing anti-junta leaflets and planting homemade bombs in or near government buildings. They are imprisoned in Athens, and most of the charges of torture refer to them...
Only Passion. Volkswagen's massive contribution to the postwar economic recovery that West Germans refer to as the Wirtschaftswunder was almost exclusively the work of Heinz Nordhoff, a courtly engineer whose only passion, he once said, was "to build cars, sell cars and build cars." The son of a Hildesheim banker, Nordhoff served long enough in World War I to be shot in both knees. In 1925, he took an engineering degree from the Polytechnic Academy in Berlin and began his career by designing aircraft engines in Munich. Joining Opel, General Motors' subsidiary, in 1929, Nordhoff worked...
There were also some representatives of that sub-species of gun-owners that refer to Italian Carcano rifles as "Kennedy specials." Some wore Texas boots and baggy jackets with string ties; others just dressed in T-shirts and blue jeans. They tended to wander over to the one dealer who offered surplus military rifles. They debated whether to pay $23.50 for a Mauser rifle of the type used by France's Civil Guards. Or, for $74.50, they could purchase the "hard-hitting and battle tested U.S. M-1 .30 Cal. carbine which wrote the obituary of Nazi and Nip alike...