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...Nader himself has been one of the main agitators in the national law school reform movement. The point was that students who want to beat the system have to stop playing by the system's rules. Student bodies might get ROTC off the campus, and that might make a chink in ROTC, which might cut into the war effort. But maybe things would be quicker and more effective if the bodies worked on the Defense Department of General Dynamics instead of sticking to the artificial limits of the university. Laird and Nixon and Nader all know that the system...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Silhouette Nader at Harvard | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

Calkins is a man who likes to get things done--in the most immediately efficient was possible. He finds the vulnerable chink in the problem he wants to solve, and he begins his attack there. If the attack is fruitless he moves elsewhere. He does not ram his head into the wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hugh Calkins | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

Calkins is a man who likes to get things done--in the most immediately efficient way possible. He finds the vulnerable chink in the problem he wants to solve, and he begins his attack there. If the attack is fruitless he moves elsewhere. He does not ram his head into the wall...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: The Calkins Saga -- A Second Chapter | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...Melvin Laird, the incoming Secretary of Defense, knows the Pentagon well. For 14 of his 16 years in the House, he served on the appropriations subcommittee handling military spending, and he has shown familiarity with national-security issues as a frequent critic of Democratic defense policies. The chink in Laird's armor is his lack of administrative experience, and last week he moved to close it with an impressive appointment. As his Deputy Secretary of Defense, No. 2 man in the Government's biggest department ($80 billion a year, a military and civilian personnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Administration: No. 2 Men | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...dozen years ago, Critic John Mason Brown defined television as chewing gum for the eyes. Now the record industry has come up with bubble gum for the ears. Set to a chink-a-chink beat, bleated out with pep-rally fervor, it goes like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop: Tunes for Teeny-Weenies | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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