Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compared to these shining lights of governmental stability, the three-year-old Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs seems a brief flicker. Yet astute observers of parliamentary history can learn much from its fall. Britain's institutions have endured because they once relied on the stable source of power in the society, the landowning nobility. If any government is to succeed here, it too must turn to the aristocracy for guidance and support. It must faithfully represent the interests of the College's hereditary nobility, the clubbies...
...time he left, last fortnight on a trip to Laos, another Saigon government was thrown out of office). The ambassador even sent to Washington a memorandum listing some 20 points that he hoped to discuss at length with Bundy; they ranged from whether Taylor should fly to Washington to brief Congress some time soon to the paramount question of whether the U.S. should extend, and possibly escalate, the Vietnamese...
...were not merely postulates of convenience. Yet Einstein's own work, like Loeb's contributed to the overthrow of that position. In 1927, the physicist Percy Bridgman questioned how it was possible that Newtonian theory, which had been accepted throughout the nineteenth century, could be overthrown. He answered, in brief, that Einstein had replaced Newton's absolute concepts--absolute space, absolute motion, absolute time--with concepts defined in terms of particular observers, such as time and length relative to an observer. The truth arrived at by these observers were necessarily more limited in scope, more subject to amendment...
...World War II combat area, has served his entire Army career at desk jobs far removed from battlefields. A onetime math instructor at the academy, Wheeler still doodles with algebraic equations during J.C.S. sessions. As director of the Joint Chiefs' staff, he was assigned in 1960 to brief Presidential Candidate John Kennedy on military developments; his performance led to his appointment by Kennedy as Army Chief of Staff in 1962. In that job, he won McNamara's favor by his outspoken advocacy of the nuclear test-ban treaty, trekking to Capitol Hill to rebut point by point...
...break up the chairs in a rented, furnished house? Even the most dogmatically permissive parent or psychologist would certainly draw the line. Yet Tarl Pracket, the strange antiheroine of Bell Call, brings up her children just like that-and such is the hallucinatory power of the author that for brief instants Tarl even seems to have a valid case...