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Harvard students are supposedly some of the most gifted in the country. We are the nation's brain-trust, or at least part of it. And yet we are all worried about finding jobs. Why? The economy has never been better. The world is full of problems that need solutions. There are one thousand different directions each of us could go. We are the ones who should be forging new paths into the next century. So why is our greatest aspiration to work for the biggest banks, or to write for "Beavis and Butthead"? Why are we so worried about...
Early on there were many who were considered favorites, including Archibald Cox '34, a law school professor and later the Watergate special prosecutor, McGeorge Bundy, a top member of the Kennedy-Johnson brain-trust and former dean of the faculty, Robert D. Cross '47, dean of Swarthmore College, Dr. John D. Knowles, director of Mass. General Hospital, Edward M. Purcell, University professor and Nobel laureate and Derek C. Bok, then dean of Harvard Law School...
Leading the private-sector initiative is developer James Rouse's Enterprise Foundation, a sort of brain-trust godparent to housing efforts all across the country. Rouse's idea was to combine government incentives, benign capitalism and community energy to build decent, affordable housing. One key to the organization's success is Rouse's knack for persuading corporations to get involved and for pointing out the tax incentives that make it worth their while. If a company invests $1 million in a financing pool for low-income housing, over 15 years it could realize $2.3 million in tax savings...
...practical economic goals of Kubitschek's term are set forth in a 247-page document drafted in 1955 by Kubitschek and a brain-trust panel headed by Lucas Lopes, a brilliant engineer who bossed the Minas Gerais electric-energy program. To implement the plan, the President will set up, with Lopes as chairman, an Economic Development Committee made up of key administration officials and economic technicians. Kubitschek expects private capital to do most of the development job. "My government will interfere," he says, "only when private enterprise is unwilling or unable to carry out what is indispensable." The program...
...suggestions were not new. "It's just taking a lot of old lumber and a few nails," said he, "and making something out of them." To many a conservative Congressman, the Ruml plan seemed little more than a bookkeeping operation, reminiscent of the New Deal's brain-trust days. Admitted Ruml: "It's a bookkeeping operation, but not 'just' a bookkeeping operation. It may be that in these years the splitting of the budget is more important than splitting the atom. We can't have a free economy with high taxes...