Top Job Mediocrity Is Hazard to U.S.
AS THE STOCK market rises, both Uncle Sam and the business world face a falling market in human skill.</br></br>The firing of John Paton Davies, Jr., after a 23-year career in the State Department has further depressed-talent prospects in the Foreign Service.</br></br>The GovernmentÛªs junior executive program is experiencing a steady decline of promising candidates from colleges.</br></br>The United States Information -Program, long harried by witch hunters, is desperately short of highly qualified people, especially linguists, and is having trouble recruiting them.</br></br>The armed services are failing to attract enough officer material to give adequate leadership to the defense forces that must be maintained.