Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Charles Chaplin. In his account of his flamboyant life, the great comedian describes his miserably poor childhood in London in fascinating detail. Unfortunately, when he turns to love, politics, and even his happy fourth marriage to Oona O'Neill, he leaves out both fact and feeling in favor of the name-dropping prose of a standard show-biz autobiography...
...Telegraph-Herald was delighted to run Jimmy's letter; indeed, to Mrs. Kress's great astonishment, the letter made the front pages of newspapers all over the U.S. For the most part, it contained a lively, although almost certainly inaccurate account of the mysterious Sept. 18th destroyer action in the Tonkin Gulf. Wrote young Kress: "We picked up about seven contacts on the radar screen. The Edwards blew two of them out of the water for certain and shot up another one. I don't know if the Morton destroyed any or not. One of them boats...
According to the Committee, one crucial difficulty is that "Gen Ed requirements have been too inflexible to take into account the various levels of student preparation, and the courses offered have been too limited in number." Specifically the Committee detected three failings in the present system of requirements. First, elementary Gen Ed courses are all given at approximately the same level of difficulty. Second, elementary Gen Ed courses do not lead directly to opportunities for further study. And last, students have too little choice of courses at the elementary level...
Pusey indicated that the Corporation's decisions would take into account a report filed by the Committee on the Tenth House, a five-man group headed by Arthur D. Trotenberg '48, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Resources and Planing. The report was prepared in cooperation with students selected by the Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs...
...Senator races breathlessly through his 171-page narrative, treating every possible political topic--from foreign aid to mental health--and capping each rhetorical flourish with a crescendo of statistics: "Exports now account for 4 per cent of our gross national product. The six countries of the European Common Market export 12 per cent of theirs--three times our rate. Other countries do better." Rarely does he stop to elaborate the data, to consider for example the obvious fact that not all countries need export the same percentage of their output...