Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater scale. Ideally, it could also set a new standard for federal officials' performance. Promotion and pay raises might well go mainly to officials who liquidate their programs fastest and release more money for new federal efforts. The goal should be to enlarge federal leadership and contract federal bureaucracy at the same time...
...recording companies were pouring money into promotion of the scene before it had matured, feigning great interest in the musicians. The musicians, myself included, fell for it. Somehow in our hearts we all believed that there, way up high on top of the Big Rock Candy Mountain a recording contract was being written by genial producers and stamped with approval by God. Nobody really had any idea what was going on, although every rumor you had ever heard was filed neatly in the rucksack of your mind to act as a pillow for your weary body as you stretched...
...Colonel Pell, "Justification for Academic Credit for ROTC at Harvard," "The Role of ROTC in a Liberal Arts College," "ROTC and the US Armed Forces," "A Brief History of ROTC," "Army ROTC Enrollment at Harvard, 1968-69," a position paper by some ROTC cadets, and extract copies of the contract between Harvard and Army ROTC, the current program of instruction, and a revised curriculum concept...
...maintains that at this time in history Harvard University should not have a contract with the U. S. government to provide for the military training of officers for the U. S. armed forces, given the systematic use of those forces against popular liberation struggles at home and abroad. We argue this in a position paper we are now circulating, for abolishing ROTC at Harvard and against punishing the demonstrators at Paine Hall. We hope that this position paper will lead to fruitful discussions among students and Faculty that will clarify and not futrher obscure the issues. Miles Morgan...
...Army began last year to grant contracts for new Senior ROTC units to 15 selected colleges and universities each year. The first group of institutions included such schools as Brigham Young University, St. John's University of New York and other imminently respectable institutions. There are reported to be about 150 institutions of higher learning still on the Army's waiting list, each eager and willing to accept the contract terms which have prevailed for 50 years. Combined with low officer production and other reasons, this access to other college campuses might cause the Army to withdraw from some...