Word: covered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover speaks 10,000 words. I have never received a message with more appalling force...
...which meant late nights at the office for Associate Editor Laurence Barrett as he grappled with the task of writing a cover story on fast-moving Bobby Kennedy. Barrett knew just what the reporters were up against. He began writing about Bobby back in 1964 as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Among his more harrowing memories is an interview he conducted in a speeding car. Senator Kennedy was driving with one casual hand while the other banged his knee for emphasis. Barrett, his eyes searching for disaster on the road ahead, had an understandably difficult time taking...
...exhorted the University to "make a conscious effort to offset the natural tendency to academic isolation and the narrow perpetuation of its own internal tradition." That charge is an anachronism, and this report says that the University must consolidate its strengths rather than expand in a futile attempt to cover all fields of scholarship...
That conclusion probably means that the next few years will find the University linking with M.I.T. and B.U. to cover fields in which Harvard is weakest and to start programs in undeveloped areas of scholarship. The recommendation also sounds the note of "community," which the Committee once again insists must be strengthened if the University is to remain excellent. But how? This group of seven professors, brooding and sifting through data for a year, only began to answer...
...universally excellent: "The Committee recommends that the Faculty concentrate upon a limited number of areas in which it can provide top-quality leadership rather than seek to achieve a full spectrum of appointments in every department and academic specialty. Given financial constraints, the Faculty cannot hope to cover all fields and specialties without risking a dilution of quality. On a departmental level we endorse cooperative arrangements with other institutions in the area to reduce duplication and to provide a more effective community of scholars...