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...burly, six-foot Stanford graduate, with an infectious grin and a saddle-tanned bald head, who has three immediate aides but can draw on the help of Camp Elliott's 400-man staff if he needs it. Grant's first problem was to find a yardstick for his research. "A man's intelligence quotient is of no value here," says Grant, "because intelligence isn't what helps a person in getting along with others. To measure ability to 'get along,' we hit on a social integration scale...
...best qualitative yardstick so far available was the Korean War. Initially we were rudely surprised by the Soviet MIG-15, which, at altitudes above 28,000 to 30,000 feet, had flying characteristics superior to our aircraft. But, like the Jap Zero of World War II, it was not a better fighting machine. The "kill" statistics, even if liberally discounted, were overwhelming in our favor. Greater pilot skill accounted for much of this but not all of it. We have other yardsticks. We,know, as General Alfred M. Gruenther, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, has stated, that...
...category, so-called "strategic information" has been created inside the area of unclassified material, with the apparent blessing of the President. Yet President Eisenhower has failed to issue an executive order defining exactly what constitutes "strategic information." According to Secretary Wilson, all news releases should be measured against the yardstick of "constructive service" to the defense effort. Other Administration officials undoubtedly have their own interpretations of what should or should not be released to the press and public. Only one clear fact emerges--the Administration has substituted the chaos of bureaucratic discretion for the rationality, however slight, which the classification...
...gravest fault," according to O'Brian, "is a failure to appraise more accurately the extent of our danger and to test measures of security against the yardstick of traditional guarantees of freedom. The answer to the problem," he added, "is a drastic revision of our security program by men soundly educated in the history of freedom...
...paralyzing indecision. We must not let this happen in our time . . . In all areas basic to the strength of America there will be-to the extent I can insure them-cooperative, constructive relations between the executive and legislative branches of this Government. Let the general good be our yardstick on every great issue of our time...