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Lieut. General Austin Betts, the Army's chief of research and development, points to a central problem: "It is the constant fight between progress and being sure you never make a mistake." When to go into production and when to continue research is a problem that constantly bedevils Betts and his counterparts elsewhere in the Pentagon. "Make it, and you're a hero," he says. "Wrong, and you are up on the Hill." Men like Betts and John Foster, the research chief for the Defense Department, suffer nightmares that the other side may achieve some technological breakthrough that will leave...
...that found its way outside China early this year, will enshrine Mao's policies as official guideposts and formally designate Lin as his heir. The congress will also legitimize the new leadership that has emerged from the crucible of the purges. Finally, the delegates will select a new Central Committee. The old committee was purged of at least two-thirds of its membership, including such leading figures as President Liu Shaochi and Teng Hsiao-ping, the party secretary-general. With that, the congress will officially establish the ruling group that may well preside over the post-Mao succession period...
...environment suggest the depth and complexity of issues in the management of our society. Why have we had such difficulty, steadily mounting difficulty, in getting at these problems? One might blame our apathy, or our unwillingness to spend, or our resistance to change. But something else is wrong, something central, something crucial. Our society, as it is now functioning, is not an adequate problem-solving mechanism. The machinery of the society is not working in a fashion that will permit us to solve any of our problems effectively...
...University policeman attempted to stop the crowd from coming in the central gate and the automobile gate to the north of it. Several policemen and demonstrators exchanged blows; the policemen--overpowered by the demonstrators--stepped aside to allow them to enter freely. No injuries were reported...
INCREASED community involvement was one of the central goals of the alternate slate. At first the Coop's organizers questioned a number of the Coop's employment and investment policies, where it quickly turned out that the Coop was in most cases doing a good deal already. At the time Wes Profit admitted, "Like Harvard, the Coop does a lot of worth-while things which never get publicized...