Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...host of moderate G.O.P. Governors. Rockefeller urged a Romney-Javits ticket last spring. Colorado's Love, Massachusetts' Volpe, Pennsylvania's Shafer, Wisconsin's Warren Knowles and Rhode Island's Chafee?who sees a possibility of a Romney-Chafee combination?might throw him their convention votes. Vermont's Senator George Aiken states flatly: "I've held that Romney is the most promising man we have. He could win." Among other Republican Senators, New Jersey's Case, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, Hawaii's Hiram Fong and Maine's Margaret Chase Smith also are said to favor...
...project now being carried out at the Aiken Computation Lab may eventually enable large numbers of Harvard students to solve computer problems without learning computer language...
...Aiken says that the traditional division of courses at Harvard was saved only through "very eloquent opposition, in part by certain humanistically oriented scientists." But the general trend in University education today, at Harvard and elsewhere, is, he says, "in the direction of the forms of specialized research and instruction which are useful to the national society and which therefore receive the largesse of its government...
...accident I think that, as Time magazine cheerfully reported out in a recent issue, leaders of business and heads of universities have become interchangeable parts," says Aiken...
...when it was over, all had been hustled through the assembly line. On one key measure, the Senate voted in the absence of 30 members, most of whom had left to fight home-state campaign battles. Lamenting the proportionate absence of deliberation on the Senate floor, Vermont Republican George Aiken remarked: "I've never seen the Senate act more irresponsibly...