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Intelligence Gap. The AMSA concept took a long time to develop and was further delayed by two big Ms-money and McNamara. The former Defense Secretary could never be persuaded of AMSA's immediate merit. He argued that the current B-52s and the troublefraught new FB-llls could be modified with advance defense-penetration devices that would make them effective into the mid-70s. Further, he was reluctant to commit the nation to a vast defense expenditure (210 FB-llls would cost about $1.5 billion, 210 AMSAs would cost $8.1 billion) in view of the gap between development...
...class. The potential difficulty with such a definition is that it is too elastic to be useful for political analysis. If a middle-class university professor and a young executive have to be lumped together in the same unit of analysis because they live in the same suburb the concept of class is not going to be any help in trying to understand the different social roles...
...even the minimal quota of commissioned officers by which a unit justifies its existence. Elsewhere a unit which isn't producing officers might be closed down. But not here. Harvard's ROTC units have a more important function than producing officers: they lend legitimacy and prestige to the whole concept of military training on the nation's campuses...
...more for his fellow men by becoming a doctor than by writing about doctors. While studying medicine at Western Reserve University in the mid-1950s, he read about medical centers for the poor that had long existed in Europe. Later he studied what he calls "social medicine" (the concept of illness as an environmental as well as a medical problem) at South Africa's only medical school primarily for blacks, at the University of Natal in Durban. In 1964, Geiger traveled to Mississippi for the Medical Committee for Human Rights, and with Dr. Count Gibson Jr., a Georgia-born...
Mirko s right when he denies stardom. To play Helen Hayes in the mid-twentieth century are scene which revolves around the blatantly rich New York market one must dream up a revolutionary original concept of art. There's Jackson Pollock, of course, who gave the physical making process so much more prominence than Mirko ever does. And there's Morris Louis, whose name and stripes of color are better known at Harvard than is Mirko. The action painter, the flat painter, the minimalist, the happening-creator, the sculptor of simple geometric forms at superhuman scale (Tony Smith...