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...Economics and fellow of the Center for International Affairs. The following article is from a speech delivered 18 months ago, and is reprinted with permission of the publisher from Cybernetics, Simulation, and Conflict Resolution, edited by Douglas E. Knight. Huntington W. Curtis and Lawrence J. Fogel. Copyright 1971 Spartan Books...
Park, a scrupulously honest man who has led an almost spartan existence while in office, has been unable to control corruption in his regime. At least one Cabinet minister and about two dozen top officials of his ruling Democratic Republican Party have been living in an exotic residential area that local newspapers called a "thieves' town." All Park could do was force them to give up their luxurious apartments. In his humorless campaign speeches, Park concentrated on the country's security problems. He quashed the idea of dealing with the North in the foreseeable future. Instead, he insisted...
Nash practices were lengthy and spartan. He was accused of having recruited prospects whose academic abilities fell far below Ivy standards. Several times critics claimed that he attempted to use verbal psyche tactics on rival oarsmen before important races. His supposedly manic pursuit of victory created enemies...
...Spartan Senator from Wisconsin, who doesn't believe in defeat no matter what the odds, is the kind of culture hero the Democratic Party needs for its myth-making machine in 1972. He is living evidence that this country has not run out of real heroes...
...current king of the hill in aerospace is McDonnell Douglas, which is on schedule with its DC-10 Trijet program and the lucrative F-15 military jet fighter contract. The company's astronautics division is hard at work on projects including NASA's skylab program and the Army's Spartan missile for the anti-ballistic missile system...