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When the lean, weathered colonel took command of the Army's "Mech and Tech" school four years ago, he found that there had been little change in training since the early days of World War II. "But there is 100 years', perhaps a thousand years', difference in terms of warfare," says Polich. At a time when five enlisted men are supposed to operate nuclear-armed battlefield missiles with the power of 1,000 World War II bombers, instructors were still droning through confusing, poorly illustrated lectures more likely to put students to sleep than turn them into...
From Unsatisfactory to Superior. This month at 47, Colonel Polich retires after 20 years of service; as a reservist and an engineer, bird colonel is about the highest peacetime rank he can achieve. His job at Fort Belvoir is completed. In four years he has raised Mech and Tech's efficiency rating from "unsatisfactory" to "superior," the military's top grade. The Army is gradually adopting some of his ideas in its other schools, and now Polich intends to employ his imaginative methods in civilian life by taking up one of the offers from the dozens of firms...
...Loaded with fast-skating Canadians, the University of Denver won the 13th N.C.A.A. hockey championship with a 5-3 defeat of Michigan Tech, another Canadian-packed team, was pronounced the finest college team in history by experts at rinkside in Boston...
...glittering example of how the universities may develop is Michigan State's remarkable new liberal arts branch at Oakland (TIME, Sept. 28). Completely reversing the "tech and ag" image of its parent institution, Oakland is an avowedly intellectual school limited to such rigorous matters as rhetoric, Russian, philosophy of science. Last month Oakland's first 570 freshmen got the shock of their lives: 43% flunked in chemistry, calculus and economics. Nothing like this ever happened at old M.S.U. Says 18-year-old Mike Deller: "It's rough, really rough. But I'm glad. Some...
World War II, oddly enough, turned Collector Fleischman to art. A tech sergeant in the 301st Infantry, he fought at Lorient, later found himself detailed to Grave Registration, identifying bodies, notifying next of kin, etc. This, he explains, "brought me into touch with people speculating on the meaning of war and searching for what is true and enduring. Inevitably this led to a discussion of art. Art is the most personal, intimate experience a man can have. It's entirely between the artist and you. There is no conductor, no musician, no actor, nobody to interpret the experience...