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During World War II, Gould ended up as a lieutenant commander in charge of Admiral Arthur Radford's office aboard the carrier U.S.S. Yorktown in the Pacific. In 1946, he was hired to set up a radio, TV and theater section for Boston University. It was a demanding job. Gould had to recruit a faculty, teach 18 hours a week-and start an educational FM station. He also found time to co-author a book on Training the Local Announcer. Gould then spent two years as assistant to B.U. President Harold Case, learning some of the subtleties of running...
Throughout U.S. history, wars have almost invariably ended with a clear victor, a stirring surrender ceremony, and a touch of grandeur. There was Cornwallis capitulating at Yorktown; Lee yielding to Grant; the bowed Japanese aboard the Missouri. But Viet Nam, it is all too apparent, is a war unlike any other that the U.S. has ever had to fight. Accordingly, U.S. policymakers last week were sifting several shreds of evidence that may hint at a different and less dramatic conclusion...
...evaluating a child's performance in discovery classes. One study showed that many students who made A's and B's in traditional physics courses slipped to C's and D's in the new courses. Richard Knabel, an earth-science teacher in Yorktown, N.Y., complains that parents are so worried about getting their children into college that "it runs me up the wall-and the kids often have a block against real learning because all they worry about is grades...
Infuriated, the Japanese struck back with their sole remaining carrier, the Hiryu. Diving through intense U.S. fire, the Japanese bombers and torpedo planes, far superior to then-existing American models, slammed three bombs through the carrier Yorktown. Among the casualties was Seaman George Weise, who was blown so high that he hit the wing of a passing plane-and survived...
...Paul Douglas is in trouble," thundered Hubert Humphrey at a Democratic rally in Chicago last week, "then George Washington was in trouble at Yorktown." That intelligence could bring Cornwallis back from the grave...