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The testimony of Pentagon experts was "in many cases highly unsatisfactory. Time & time again, no breakdown was available . . . Witnesses were either unprepared or unwilling to supply simple and essential facts. Again & again came the response, 'We shall have to submit that later for the record.' "
"When the President took over the meeting, Secretary Acheson stated the picture, as he saw it, on Korea. The President then turned to me and asked the views of Defense ... A major portion of the evening was taken in the individual, unrehearsed, and unprepared and uncoordinated statements of the several...
Carswell's winning entry, "Beating the System," appeared on the editorial page of the CRIMSON on June 14 of last year. It contained detailed instructions on how the academically unprepared student could fool the grader on his exams. His thesis was outlined under three headings, "The Vague Generality," "The Artful...
Caught unprepared, Shinwell sputtered that Blackburn was "inaccurate ... for several months now we have placed an embargo on the export of strategic raw materials to China." But Blackburn was not wrong. He harried Shinwell with data from the government's own Board of Trade. Example: British Malaya had sold...
Sporting a few pieces of crimson tinted clothes, the gala girl of Piccadilly said that she shan't be caught unprepared should the Harvard crew win.