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Despite the pleasant outlook and easy commute (a 2½-minute walk from the living quarters), Nixon was not altogether satisfied with the Oval Office. Most of his "brainwork," he said, would be done in a new office, yet to be found, in the old Executive Office Building, across from the White House, where many of the President's staff will reside. The Oval Office will be used mostly for formal affairs. When he wants to work in the White House, Nixon will probably use a small private study that adjoins the big office or a small sitting room...
...same time, research has indicated that the Harvard experience has a definite effect in turning students from a more "idealistic" outlook on life to a more "pragmatic" one. Brainwork is what is needed to be on the top of the Harvard academic ladder, and these "personality suited" students place other values before a life of brainwork. Thus they slide down the Harvard grade ladder and hence the statistical bias. Admission to business school places less emphasis on high grades than admission to law or medical schools...
...calculate the loss of time or energy this represents-at the very moment when more men and women are needed more urgently than ever to do creative brainwork. The computer culture that can perform the undreamed-of in milliseconds is in its domestic style drifting back to the frontier, with people eating in the kitchen (a kitchen often blended into the living room) and organizing the family to do the domestic chores. Taking note of this, Russell Lynes observed: "We have moved a long way mechanically; we are almost where we started humanly...
...didn't take much brainwork to predict a remarkable season for Harvard athletics in 1963-4. It would have taken a visionary, however, to predict its extent, even after good '65 and '66 athletes arrived. Never before, in the seven years that Harvard has led the Ivy League schools in overall winning percentage, have Crimson teams won more than 68 per cent of their games. This year's squads put together a winning percentage...
Down in Florida, Miami Coach Andy Gustafson was doing some brainwork too. "Tatum knows we have a good ground attack, with a lot of power to the outside. I'm guessing he'll try to stunt his defense and concentrate on stopping us outside. My logical move, then, is to try to run inside against his big boys...