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...honor guard stood at saber-stiff attention and a 19-gun artillery salute boomed across the grassy Pentagon Mall, Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson last week swore in Sergeant Major William O. Wooldridge, 43, as the highest-ranking enlisted man in the 191-year history of the U.S. Army. Wooldridge, who became the first noncom to hold the new rank of Sergeant Major of the Army (the Marines have had a comparable corps-wide post since 1957) will serve in effect as the G.I.'s generalissimo. Acting as both the soldier...
...good thing Professor Miner likes to teach only small classes; this restricts the number of students receiving misinformation from him. Anyone who has read anything on evolutionary theory published in the last 20 to 30 years knows better than to make such remarks about the saber-toothed cats. Thirty-five million years ago, during Oligocene time, the saber-toothed cat pattern was essentially frozen. In some cats, the length of the saber was proportionately as great as or greater than that of the culminating species in the ice age. Thirty-five million years is a pretty fair length of time...
When he hits Darwin and mutations, Miner yanks at his front teeth. "The saber-toothed tiger," he says, "was noted for its eyeteeth. They grew and grew, giving the tiger a tremendous bite. They could just WHANG on that prey." He claps his hands together. "But this mutation kept recurring and the eyeteeth grew longer and longer, till they came down like this"?he drapes his forefingers down over his lower jaw?"and then what happened? They couldn't get a bite. So now there are no more saber-toothed tigers...
...viciousness, the vocabulary he frequently misuses and the logic he invariably abuses, I doubt that Buckley has contributed one original idea to public discussion or performed one act of public service. Why should a man of accomplishment debate a nonentity? Or, in Buckley's idiom, why use a saber to chop hamburger...
...employees, is now fighting to stay alive in its home market. London is buzzing with rumors that Gillette is negotiating a takeover of Wilkinson. The rumors are denied by both companies, but they have not given any lift to the 193-year-old saber manufacturer, whose shares have slid from $7.56 when they were publicly issued in April 1964 to $3.50 last week...