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...their strike plan. The target was not an enemy capital but Capitol Hill, and the battle was over which firm would land a multibillion-dollar contract for military cargo planes. The allies in this case were Lockheed executives working in tandem with the Pentagon to sell Congress the C-5B over its rival, Boeing's 747. In one of the fiercest and, some say, most shameless lobbying battles Congress has seen in decades, the issue of which plane was better often became obscured in partisan crossfire. The air war ended last week when the House, by a vote...
Adams received his M.A. in 1928 and Ph.D. in 1946, both at Harvard, after graduating from Illinois in 1927. Before entering the Navy he served as a history professor at Lake Forrest College in Illinois. At Harvard Adams gave several lectures in History 5b, now History...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., identified by Time last week as the father of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., is teaching in the Netherlands this winter and so for the first time in several years he won't be giving History 61b (formerly History 5b) in the spring term. History 61 is the College's basic American history course, and in view of Truman's election it's too bad that former members of the class won't get a chance to find out if Schlesinger would revise his first lecture, which is the past has included his cyclical theory of American...
...Geology 5b...
Although presented as a "non-technical" introduction to regional planning, Professor G. Holmes Perkins' Arch Sci 5b tends to be weighted down with his own extensive experience and interest in the subject on all governmental levels so that architect-concentrators might well wait for the more condensed material as given...