Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout this account he grins like a newlywed monkey. But he tries to look a little hard-boiled when he reminds his young audience that there is nothing pure about moviemaking. It involves too many interests and too much money. He quotes James Joyce's answer to the man who asked if he could kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses: "That hand has done a lot of other things...
...Dustin M. Burke '52 According to Burke, much of the extra administrative expense is compensation for the time he and General Counsel Harold Rosenwald spent last summer trying to find planes. It is hard to understand, however, how the extra hours put in by two salaried officers could legitimately account for expenses as high as the HSA's seem...
...Your account in last Friday's Crimson of my talk on Vietnam to the Society of Harvard Dames was half-right, but your headline was 100 per cent wrong. The headline said: "Huntington Says U.S. Will Lose War in Vietnam." What I said was that we could not now or in the foreseeable future win the war in Vietnam. I also said that we could not afford to lose the war and that there was no reason why we had to lose the war unless the North Vietnamese were determined to push the conquest of the South at all costs...
Only Richard Rhodes's article, "100 Years of Murder in Vietnam," stands out from this generally slipshod journalism, as a well reasoned attack on American policy in Vietnam. He presents a thoroughly documented historical account of our intervention in that country, and dramatizes the burden of guilt we must bear for our actions there. Even those readers who find his commentary a little too radical for their sensitive political palates will find that, like I.F. Stone, Rhodes has done his homework and has come up with astonishing quotations from the pages of the New York Times, the Congressional Record...
...years the U.S. has sought to thwart Communist--and specifically Chinese Communist--policies by maintaining a U.S.-controlled military force in Vietnam. There is little need to give a coup-by-coup account of U.S. mistakes in Southeast Asia. The past few months have revealed to nearly everyone, conservatives and liberals alike, that American military policy in South Vietnam has been a failure...