Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successor, Henry S. Rowen, 41, an M.I.T.-educated engineer-turned-economist and defense specialist, is a Rand veteran who has spent the past 51 years in Washington-first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and currently as Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Budget. His appointment heightens speculation that Rand may focus increasingly on social problems. Though Rowen insists that Rand will continue to be a key factor in U.S. defense planning, he said last week: "There is a great need to get much better analysis done in public-policy issues. Rand...
...last week reversed its previous opposition to the OEO plan as "costly, wasteful and inferior." Meeting in Los Angeles, the association warmly endorsed the idea and offered the aid of all members.* Even more approvingly, the American Bar Association last week urged Congress to double the OEO legal-aid budget to "a minimum" of $52 million. The goal is not only equal justice for the poor, said the A.B.A. It is also urgently needed "respect for law" in the "greatest breeding ground of the criminal world, the slum...
...Chiefs of police are administering very large organizations--for example, the budget of the New York Department is more than $300 million--and yet, many chiefs have not had opportunities for management training," Patrick V. Murphy, assistant director of the office of law enforcement and an ex-chief himself said in an interview...
Worry at the Top. Fretting because, in his words, "the economy is heating up," President Johnson called 50 congressional leaders to the White House and lectured them about economizing. Unless they do, he insisted, the alternatives are price and wage controls (which nobody wants), a huge budget deficit (inflationary), or new taxes (in an election year). Congress has already appropriated about $1 billion over the Administration's requested $113 billion budget for the new fiscal year. Pending proposals, if adopted, might add another $5 billion or so, chiefly for health, education and agriculture. On top of that, the Viet...
...fact, Crooks said, had the HDC decided to set up the Summer Players before May of this year, the Summer School might have subsidized its current efforts. "Our budget is submitted in February," Crooks said, "and by the time they came to us, there was nothing we could...