Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The White House announced yesterday the appointment of George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and former Chairman of the Department, as Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology.
Kistiakowsky was a member of the United States delegation to technical talks with Russia at the 1958 Geneva Conference on ways of reducing the danger of surprise nuclear attack. From 1953 to 1958, he was a member of the ballistic missiles advisory committee of the Air Force and Defense Department...
Much of the committee's deliberations apparently center about the question of whether a man or a woman should be chosen. At an earlier stage, the committee was reportedly prepared to endorse a member of the History Department.
The fault lies in the assumption of the Fine Arts Department that the way to initiate students to the wonders of the visual arts is to present those marvels in an epic survey. The problem of how to look at a work of art must be studied very carefully if...
Perhaps the State Department was too much "under the Secretary's hat," perhaps we will not mourn the absence of "brinkmanship" and "massive retaliation." Nonetheless, Mr. Dulles' forceful leadership and unyielding moral strength are an inheritance future statesmen can be proud of.