Word: reporter
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Said saddened Air Force Chief of Staff Tommy White, referring to the newsmen who died on Cocoa: "We share with them the conquest of time and space. They share with us the dangers of that conquest . . . The men who observe and report the achievements of science and skill ... are partners in these achievements. They are also partners in the sacrifices that are sometimes the price of progress...
More important, Hammarskjold seems to have concluded that the U.A.R.'s undoubted tampering with trouble was not so critical a factor in the Lebanese deadlock as the Lebanese government claimed. "The Observation Group believes," said his U.N. group's first report from Beirut, "that the progressive implementation of its mandate will contribute greatly to the creation within Lebanon of conditions which will make possible the solution by the Lebanese people themselves of the internal problems which face the country at the present time...
Last week the U.S. had, for the reading, as thoughtful and searching an analysis of its educational system as it is likely to get. Source: the fourth report of the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.* The authors (among them: John W. Gardner, Carnegie Corporation of New York president; the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame; Sociologist David Riesman) are sharply critical of defects in U.S. education, and aware that the nation's future depends largely on whether these defects are mended...
...larger concern of the unhurried professorial report is not the pursuit of scientific or economic security for the U.S. -it is, in the title phrase, "the pursuit of excellence." Through the study runs the conviction that the complex, highly organized U.S. society is demanding too little of its citizens, and that individuals of high capability are stifled. The authors warn that "a continuing tension between the needs of the organization and the integrity of the person . . . may well be one of the most fateful struggles in our future...
Educate Everybody. The report describes the other jaw of the paradox-that although a necessarily complex society often breeds mediocrity, it desperately needs brilliant performance. The U.S.'s need of top-level scientists and highly skilled teachers is obvious now, the authors note. The only occupation for which the need can be counted on not to increase is that of the unskilled laborer, who will be replaced, to some extent at least, by self-tended machines. The schools and colleges must train more people-the U.S. population is expected to grow 55 million by 1975-and, the report warns...