Word: assign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Bobby's official post is going to be is still undecided. The President has offered him the job of heading the CIA, but Bobby has balked at that. He feels that the post is too sensitive for a President to assign to his brother, and that the appointment would bring outcries of protest. Bobby tried to talk up Max Taylor as the man for the job, but Taylor insists that he does not want it. In any event, Bobby Kennedy realizes that Allen Dulles has to go, making way for a younger man who can give...
Owen said that the Masters suggested possible changes at recent meetings but did not give detailed consideration to the problem. One plan that has been mentioned is the Yale system, which allows freshmen to pick their roommates but uses an IBM machine to assign them to the Colleges...
...ideas. Furthermore, examinations put a premium on memory and glibness, whereas evaluation of a student should be based chiefly upon standards of accuracy, clarity, and perceptiveness--qualities which one hopes to find among adults. As one instructor put it, "Taking examinations is an activity peculiar to students. When you assign papers, you treat the student like an adult...
...does some things very well, he said, such as recalling almost instantly bits of information that have been in dead storage for years. It is also capable of abstractions as varied as the theory of relativity and the Song of Solomon. It can think about itself, he added, and assign value judgments to what it thinks-such as that its thinking is wonderful. 'Giant electronic computers in existence at present can do none of these things...
...Melandy, was a supporter of vice-President Nixon; he envisioned the "Peace Corps" as a non-governmental agency, a "citizens' committee." Seeking financial support from foundations, corporations and the government, this citizens' committee would compile a roster of overseas positions, recruit young men, run a three-month orientation course, assign participants to positions according to aptitudes, and maintain contact with them. As a "people-to-people" program, this private corps would, Melady argued, have "far more impact than a government operation, which, regardless of its good work, would be labeled as an instrument of American foreign policy...