Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...died at 75 of pneumonia in a Washington hospital last week, the gathering and interpretation of intelligence was vital to American survival in a threatening world. He modestly described his risky, arcane calling as a "craft" but pursued it with an unrelenting enthusiasm and expertise that helped make the Central Intelligence Agency - for all its adverse publicity and serious misjudgments -the world's most efficient espionage organization. British Major-General Sir Kenneth Strong, former head of intelligence for the Supreme Allied Command in Europe, says of Dulles: "No more acute intellect has served in the profession before or since...
...past, most nonmilitary research was collected piecemeal from various study centers. The one really systematic attempt to keep scholarly pace involved science; translated editions of U.S. technical journals were distributed regularly to Soviet specialists. The official attitude on other subjects altered two years ago, when the Communist Party Central Committee severely criticized the state of Soviet social science research. As a result of this turnabout, Russian specialists began taking a new look at dozens of U.S. phenomena-from the rebellion of youth, which has its parallels in Russia, to the glut of automobile traffic, which...
...central moral of all these struggles is that the whole point of a university is, by a not very odd coincidence, summed up in the motto of our University: Veritas. The trouble is that no one quite knows what truth is, but we do know some of the things that are necessary if we are to search for it. One of these things is that the searcher must be unprejudiced and well-informed; another is that he must feel secure in expressing his opinions no matter what the opinions of anybody else or even everybody else. One main purpose...
...central point of the Committee's work should be the establishment of a Center or Institute for Afro-American Studies. The purpose of this institution would be to provide intellectual leadership, a physical locale, and sufficient material resources for consideration of all aspects of the Afro-American experience. In addition, the Center should have funds to provide fellowships and research assistance particularly for men and women connected with predominantly black colleges, universities, and other institutions. The Center should, like the Institute of Politics, have a student advisory board...
...central point in the Faculty Committee's work should be the establishment of a center for Afro-American Studies. The purpose of this institution would be to provide intellectual leadership, a physical locale and sufficient material resources for consideration of all aspects of the Afro-American experience...