Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Giant Step...
...President Johnson took a giant step with the appointment of HEW Secretary Gardner [Jan. 20]. It should be a life time appointment: without him the Great Society would be a fiasco; with him, there is hope. God help us if this post ever again becomes a political sop. ROBERT W. CARSON, M.D. Salt Lake City Sir: Secretary Gardner's comments about top executives who cannot tolerate first- class men around them illustrate what is subconscious knowledge among supervisors and employees in business and Government. The symptoms of "injelititis or palsied paralysis" are best described by C. Northcote Parkinson...
...Colonel William Corson, 41, a former Naval Academy professor, economist and engineer who controls 50 sq. mi. of jungle west of Danang. After months of patrolling and night ambushes, Corson's 1,500-man battalion set up what he likes to call "my laboratory for capitalism." The first step was to engage the interest of the villagers, which Corson achieved by the un-Clausewitzean technique of teaching his men the local game: co tuong, a variant of chess that uses "elephants, cannon and 14th century infantry tactics." Corson himself took on the village champion, managed to achieve...
Their main objective in writing to Rusk, the spokesman said, was to "pinpoint the areas of discussion," and "carry the dialogue one step further...
...number of different proposals have been forwarded privately for changing the current situation. It has been suggested that law firms coming to interview at Harvard be required to sign an oath saying that they do not discriminate, or, short of this step, that Harvard send a stronger anti-discriminatory statement to these law firms than it does...