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Elsie & Trigger. It was a good idea, but it also occurred to some 2,700 other postwar entrepreneurs-mostly returning servicemen who shared Prescott's ambition to start an airline. Undaunted by all the competition, most of which was soon to wither, Prescott sent his pilots barnstorming for business. The company hauled grapes from the West Coast to Georgia, took Elsie, the Borden Cow, from the East to a California county fair, even toted Roy Rogers' horse Trigger around the rodeo circuit. All the while, the hustling Prescott ("We would wash cars on Sunday morning...
Winstead, 39, a Harvard Ph.D. (in education) who directed the U.S. Army's 510,000-student education program for servicemen and their dependents in Europe until 1964, has some novel ideas about how to create a university. Instead of starting with relatively cheap undergraduate liberal arts instruction and gradually acquiring expensive graduate specialists, he is luring major scholars with big salaries (up to $30,000) and complete freedom to research and teach only in their graduate-level specialties. Winstead shrewdly argues that "serious graduate students couldn't care less about the name of the school. They want...
Most of the inequity in the present pay scale for draftees could be elimi- nated, and reasonable pay differentials maintaned among servicemen, with pay increases that would total between $2 billion and $3 billion per year. We recommend such increases on grounds of fairness and in the belief that a democracy with a GNF of over half a trillion dollars, and with income-tax rates lower than those prevailing before Vietnam, has no compelling need to use conscription to keep military wages down...
...really that, but that race has been used by some as a crutch." To the argument that Negroes are too poor for college deferments must be added the fact that they like the military enough to re-enlist at a rate three times that of the white servicemen...
Predictably, Air Force Lieut. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the highest-ranking Negro officer in any service-and son of the first Negro general, Benjamin O. Davis-rates high with Negro servicemen. So do such moderates as the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, U.S. Solicitor General (and longtime civil rights strategist) Thurgood Marshall, Labor Leader A. Philip Randolph (who directed the 1963 March on Washington), U.N. UnderSecretary Ralph Bunche and Baseball Great Jackie Robinson. Negroes in Viet Nam show the same respect for Southern-born General William C. Westmoreland as do white G.I.s. "His position on civil rights...