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...WHAT of the less theoretical, more concrete work which the Center performs? This work is undertaken exclusively by the Development Advisory Service (DAS), the largest wing of the CFIA, which places economic advisors in the employ of underdeveloped governments to counsel them on the implementation of basic policy...
...DAS traces its origins to 1954, when the Ford Foundation, acting on behalf of the Pakistani government, approached the Harvard School of Public Administration and its dean, Edward Mason. The Foundation, it was agreed, would fund a three-year field project in Pakistan to be carried out by Harvard personnel. David E. Bell, a former Truman advisor on a Rockefeller fellowship here who later headed the Agency for International Development, was chosen to supervise the field operation. In 1962, with a Harvard team still in Pakistan, a $750,000 Ford Foundation grant established the DAS on a permanent basis...
...protestors talked for two hours with Robert B. Bowie, director of the CFIA, Gustay Papanek, head of the Center's Development Advisory Service (DAS), and other CFIA members, and then left peacefully...
Earlier yesterday, the staff of the Developmental Advisory Service (DAS), an autonomous division of the CFLA, voted, 24-4, to close its offices...
...battle. Manteuffel, 72, now lives in quiet retirement near Munich. He told Cate how he and other officers under Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander in Chief West, protested that Hitler had set an impossible timetable by ordering a two-day rush to the Meuse, 50 miles distant. "Das ist unwiderruflich [This is irrevocable]," said General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations at supreme headquarters, slamming his fist on a conference table. Manteuffel, a dedicated bridge player, suggested that Hitler was trying for a grosser Schlag, a grand slam. Why not, he proposed to Jodl, settle instead for a more attainable...