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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Science Foundation (NSF), established in 1952, only barely coordinates the dispersal of these funds. When Congress approves an agency's total budget with its research estimates, it is hardly ever concerned with whom the research money is going to (except obviously in the case of enormous contracts that may benefit a congressman's home state)--only with what the money is going...
...Senator explained to TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil that it was all for Nixon's benefit: "Golly, I thought it was so very obvious. The President of the United States lives essentially an isolated life. He has people around him. He has to depend on them to give advice, to see that he makes no untimely mistakes, to shield him from many things. I'd be an awfully poor Republican leader if I were not willing to shield the President of the United States from people I feel do him no good and could do him harm...
Crisis intervention is not a panacea for mental illness. It does not benefit the patient whose emotional problems, however upsetting, are not overwhelming -the so-called normal neurotic who either applies for long-term therapy, if he can afford it, or else manages to live with his problems. Many therapists flatly reject it-and so do some patients. Says Detroit's Danto: "Often you have to talk your way in. They don't see you as the Ajax knight coming in to zap them clean...
...industries met serious declines. Profits fell at Boeing, Lockheed Aircraft, LTV and American Can, among others. Steelmakers did not fare nearly as well as in early 1968. Aluminum companies, hurt by higher wages and other costs, have yet to benefit from price increases announced in January. Many of the airlines, weighed down by costly new wage contracts and heavy financing for new aircraft, are suffering...
...with the benefit of hindsight and for the benefit of other university presidents who may be in the same position as you were, do you really think that was the best way of handling the situation...