Being wrong with Clarke & Wright

Gene Woolsey writes: I received a letter from the distinguished Editor of this special issue asking me to submit a general article addressing the topic of ‘OR and the Rude Intrusions of the Real World.’ He made this request to me because of my being noted for my ‘no-nonsense, practical bent’. In the article which follows, we will discover that I have managed to become the sage, nestor-like, statesman of the profession that I presently am by having blown it, big time, in my earlier excursions into reality.