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...FINAL LESSON in military custom focused on the salute. "The upper arm should be parallel with the ground, and the forearms should be rigid--put those forearms in a wooden splint," Henderson says. "If you use your left hand, you may stick out," he adds. The pointers may come in handy someday--Henderson says he hopes many of the cadets will go on to Air Force careers. If they do, they'll be able to skip basic training. "You'll be going in with two stripes on your shoulder," Henderson tells them. "When I was at Lackland, a man with...
Enter Father Sullivan, who joined the Catholic film office in 1957, fresh from a seminary faculty. Realizing the authority of the rigid system was crumbling, he tried to replace the old legalistic strictures with broader moral judgments from a panel of experts, including non-Catholics. The rating system was made more flexible, recognizing that some films may be accept able for teen-agers though not for younger children, and acknowledging the legitimacy of "adults only" films. Sullivan tried to permit more flexibility in detail if the whole creation was worthwhile...
...said he would like to make his choice by the end of the calender year. "I'm shooting for the first of the year," Bok said Friday, adding that although there is no rigid deadline, "it would be nice to have it arranged by then...
Chairman Hua says that China will soon begin to demonstrate "the superiority of socialism," but at the moment it is all too easy to see the inefficiency, the mediocrity produced by lack of competition, and the sluggishness of the bureaucracy. The national travel service is both rigid and expensive: it refuses, for instance, to make a hotel booking unless a visitor agrees to bear the cost of hiring an interpreter to escort him from the airport to the hotel. Many visitors do, of course, need such a service, but those who do not must take it anyway. Reservations...
Lippmann's first major participation in events cannot be faulted: he contributed to the shaping of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. But Lippmann never did have a rigid belief in journalistic celibacy. In the nine years that he was the influential editor of Pulitzer's New York World, he promoted friends for office, plotted strategies, intrigued behind the scenes, all unbeknownst to his readers. When Al Smith ran for President in 1928, Lippmann commuted to Albany in the Governor's private railway car to coach him on foreign policy, advise him on strategy, help write...