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Proceedings Magazine - August 1968 Vol. 94/8/786

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The Mystique of Command Presence

Issue: Proceedings Magazine - August 1968 Vol. 94/8/786

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  By Lieutenant Colonel William G. Leftwich, Jr., U.S. Marine Corps

  The foreign officer in the unfamiliar uniform stood before the ill-equipped soldiery and, lacking a facility in the mother tongue of the troops, he took a weapon in hand and painstakingly demonstrated each of the movements he sought to convey....

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• "For Sugar Boats or Submarines?"
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• A Hat in the Ring
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  At first, most of the audience concentrated ft on the preliminary pageantry in the bullring, showing a polite indifference to the hundreds of blue-uniformed, white-hatted American sailors who were picking their way upward through the crowd. For...

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