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...Lodge is popular with the people-in New Hampshire and elsewhere-he is less so with professional Republicans, many of whom complain about his seemingly haughty airs. The main cause of the G.O.P. defeat in 1960 was, of course, Nixon's performance in the debates; but many pros assign Lodge some of the blame too. Particularly irritating to them was his habit of napping each afternoon, regardless of the press of his schedule. Said Goldwater, in a slightly snide aside during last week's primary-night postmortem: "We can't beat the Democrats with...
Other memorialists who have trampled over the well-furrowed ground (roughly 1940 to 1960) covered in Diplomat Among Warriors have been quicker to assign blame and point morals. Certainly Robert Murphy was in a position to do so. For two decades his duties took him to the centers of crisis: North Africa, where he laid the groundwork for the U.S.-British landings; Berlin during the airlift; Belgrade, Panmunjom, the Middle East, London during the Suez crisis. But for the most part, Murphy was an implementer, not a maker, of policies. His qualities were composure under fire, persuasiveness and an encyclopedic...
...Computation Laboratory would probably be willing to donate the half a minute of computer time needed to assign the entire class of 1967. It would be very interesting to compare publicly the number of students who get into their preferred House when the assignments are made by the present manual system, and the number who would have got their preferred House if the computer had made the assignments...
...work," Lowe suggests that teachers receive special training of the kind given to social workers. He feels that more effort should be made to recruit teachers familiar with conditions like those in Roxbury. Instead of filling Roxbury with inexperienced personnel and long-term substitutes, says Lowe, the administration should assign its most seasoned teachers to the school districts with the most problems. Now, he complains, experienced instructors are too eager "to get out of the area, to get something easier." Lowe's most radical recommendation is that teachers be periodically rotated among different culturally-defined areas, to spread teaching talent...
...number of administrative stumbling blocks remain before Harvard can receive any money under the new bill. Trottenberg noted. He said the state has not yet set up the special commission required by the assign funds for undergraduate facilities. And although applications for graduate grants are sent directly to Washington, the Office of Education has still to provide its own machinery for dealing with them...