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Doubtful Doctrine. Such differences indicate that the Nixon Doctrine, calling for "Asian initiatives" in self-defense, may prove devilishly difficult to put into practice. Two years ago, Political Scientist Morton Halperin, a veteran of Clark Clifford's Defense Department, said: "A threat is important only if it is regarded as such by those in the region." As the Thai example shows, the countries of Southeast Asia are a long way from agreeing on the nature of the threat...
Zero Tolerance. Two recent decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia promise to unsnarl these problems. The court ordered Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin to stop all interstate shipments of DDT within 30 days or else show the court why such an absolute ban would be a mistake. In the other case, the court ordered Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert H. Finch to publish in the Federal Register a proposal to establish "zero tolerance" levels for DDT residues in foods for humans. In effect, this will force manufacturers to prove to HEW that...
...addition, the University appointed Clifford Alexander '54, former chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission, to form a comprehensive minority hiring program for the University. Two new building contracts which the University signed on February 9, one for Gunman Library at the Education School and the other for an extension of Paine Hall, provided for the hiring of between 19 and 23 per cent black workers...
...desk a sign that read THE BUCK STOPS HERE. It was a nice, punchy slogan, but the buck got to him only after it had filtered through his personal staff. Nor is it a new idea that the men who do the winnowing can exercise extraordinary power. Clark Clifford, a perennial adviser to postwar Democratic administrations, remembers an Eisenhower aide telling him that Ike was spared night work because his staff boiled 150-page memoranda down to two pages. Clifford replied: "There is only one trouble. If I could be the fellow who prepares the two-page memo...
This is the genre to which the late Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing belongs. Add it to the surprisingly springy revivals of the current season. The natural assumption was that Odets' play would be as antiquated as its date, 1935. Instead, it is a salutary reminder that real characters in recognizably human situations date only as people do, in particulars but not in essentials...