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Next year his wife, who left medical school to get married, is going back to school herself-to become a laboratory technician...
Schuman liked to say, "I am a technician, not an ideologist." He had a profound distaste for "isms." Therefore he was capable of as many twists and turns as he found necessary in the daily business of saving the Republic. But at the same time, Schuman never lost his quiet humanity nor his faith in men-qualities which distinguish him from the "Coco" doctrinaires of the Left and the gauntly pessimistic De Gaulle on the Right...
Such a student, lacking guidance, can easily become confused by the wide range of concentration requirements and specialize to an extreme degree. He can dispatch his general courses in a single year, spend the rest of his college tenure concentrating in a single field, and graduate textbook technician, without the large store of general knowledge the system hopes to offer. If this man were a candidate for honors, he would be inclined to place a heavy value on concentration under the existing system. Charged with extensive preparation for General Examinations, the undergraduate often feels bound to take the maximum number...
Ralph R. Graichen, aircraft technician then assigned to Air Corps headquarters, declared that the contract for the reconnaissance planes was authorized because of pressure from Elliott Roosevelt. Army contract officers protested the high cost of the plane, the unusual terms of the contract. They were overruled. The Budget Bureau recommended that the flying-boat contract be terminated, the F11 production transferred to someone else. The recommendation was ignored. Snorted one disgruntled colonel (according to a 1944 memo): "let Hughes "hang himself...
...government need is for qualified specialists in the following positions: administrative technician, archeologist, astronomer, bacteriologist, chemist, economist, engineer, geographer, legal assistant, librarian, mathematician, metallurgist, patent examiner, physical, psychologist, social science analyst, and statistician...