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...Twentieth Century Week will be a major contribution to international understanding and an intensely interesting experience," Leed declared. "We intend to offer an opportunity for American students to assess the image the United States projects abroad...
...every consumer dollar is spent on services-and statisticians include doctors and dentists as well as doormen in this category. Yet service figures are not given their full weight in the standard measurements of the growth or future of business. One reason is that it is hard to assess an increase in productivity in services. Another is that the real value of a good doctor or a good teacher is hard to translate into dollars and cents. Better measurements are needed, so that the emphasis on production statistics will not bulk so large as to overshadow the fastest-growing sector...
...before the bulletins began to clang out of Paris about Nikita Khrushchev's torpedoing of the conference, Writer Christopher had put the finishing touches on a cover story about the summit. When the blowup came, he had to pull his story apart and put it together again to assess and analyze the new situation, all under taut deadline pressure. Thirty-six hours later he was at work on a new cover story-this week's on Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Y. Malinovsky...
Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen W. Dulles leaped to Gates's side to explain that there is nothing mysterious about an attempt to assess Soviet "intentions" to build missiles. He told a Manhattan audience that the U.S. generally stresses capabilities to produce in the early stages of Soviet weapons development and "then, as more hard facts are available, we estimate their probable programing, sometimes referred to as 'intentions.' " Dulles did not attempt to gloss over the possibility that the U.S.S.R. could outnumber the U.S. by 3 to 1 in long-range missiles in 1961-63, even though...
...addition to the moral issue of depriving needy students of loan money, said the Secretary, it is difficult to assess the political effect of a given institution withdrawing from the program, for the action "might affect some people in a manner not intended...