Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just didn't organize in time to raise that amount of money," Edgar G. Engleman '67, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, said yesterday. A fund-raising committee was formed only last June. It received some pledges, but was not able to contact enough alumni to underwrite the budget in such a short time...
...Negro children, as well as its aid to urban slum schools--should, if effectively employed, cut the drop-out rate. We must assure that these resources are really used effectively, and do not merely become a substitute for local effort, or simply vanish in higher costs When Federal budget resources again become available in greater abundance, expansion of this Act particularly of its Title I should have top priority. Special grants based on performance should be set up which reward these school districts which demonstrate by objectively measurable criteria that they are doing an outstanding job in helping the children...
Government Hiring. The Budget Bureau moved to impose personnel ceilings on all Government agencies except the Defense Department, the Selective Service System and the Post Office Department. All but the three excepted agencies will be required to hold employment at the level of July 31, when it reached 2,382,993. The projected total by the end of next June had been 2,444,533, but the full 61,540 difference between the two figures will not be realized. Because of the exceptions, the number of planned jobs eliminated will be no more than 40,000, with a possible saving...
Marco the Magnificent looks great on paper. It has a big budget, seven famous names (Anthony Quinn, Horst Bucholz, Omar Sharif, Elsa Martinelli, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, Gregoire Asian), and a hero who was one of history's great adventurers: Marco Polo. On film, unfortunately, it looks terrible...
...Defense Department, usually view things from military perspective. The Defense Department study, for example, suggested that 18- and 19-year olds be drafted before older men in order to minimize disruption in career plans; more important, it concluded that a completely volunteer army would be impossible unless the defense budget were increased by about 30 per cent. In contrast, the Marshall Commission is empowered to study the various forms of national service, the relation between the local draft boards and the system's national headquarters, and the whole business of deferments. There is even a private watch-dog group called...