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...stand him in good stead. The postwar Army, led by officers who had roared through the campaigns of Europe or the Pacific, had no place for ex-P.O.W.s versed in prewar tactics. The future Chief of Staff tried in vain to win an assignment at Georgia's Fort Benning, was even turned down as an R.O.T.C. instructor by several universities. So Johnson went back to class himself, toured the Army's ground force schools and spent a year at Fort Leavenworth's Command and General Staff College. Then, in 1950, came Korea-and overnight the Army...
...report to the Administration includes excerpts from Hersey's address at his installation as Master. Hersey said the non-academic man in the academic world "has no reason to hide his astonishment at the inertias of a great University. He can afford the easy stead-fastness of one who does not want or need anything from the institution, least of all those terrifying velvet handcuffs known as tenure...
...Piety. That toughness stood Moyers in good stead when he took over the press job last July. One of the first things he did was ask Ike's press secretary for his advice. Said Hagerty, now an ABC vice president: "Speak only when the President can't speak for himself." Moyers has done so with impressive authority, thanks to Johnson's carte blanche: "My desk is your beat." When in doubt, he says, he tries to heed his father's axiom: "Tell the truth when you can, and when...
While Gemini 4 orbited the earth, Astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White did not brush after every meal, but in stead chewed a new gum called Trident, which helps clean teeth by using enzymes to break down dirt and bacteria...
...further enhanced by slogans: The truth shall make ye free,' for example, which supposes that there is a truth in public affairs and that journalists have access to it; or 'All the news that's fit to print,' which imagines that news, in stead of being something shaped and put out for the eye of the beholder, is something that really exists - solid, tan -gible, visible...