Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of director Mary Belle Feltenstein's cast is not up to their standard. Bob Barnard is weak as Mortimer, the sisters' drama-critic nephew. The part is very difficult. Mortimer has to be the sane man in a houseful of lunatics and cadavers, registering a new variety of horror or shock every time a grisly surprise is sprung on him. But Barnard simply hasn't the range of expression he needs to make the most...
Neither management nor labor would comment specifically on the contract. "This is the union's own business and it might jeopardize the voting results for us to say anything right now," said John Butler, assistant director of Personnel and Harvard's chief negotiator. "But maybe the union would talk because they need the publicity. They often have a hard time getting their people to attend meetings," he added...
Likewise there seems to be a general feeling among students that summer training programs are a waste of time, while summer jobs are more beneficial. Robert Betts, placement director at Catholic University, feels that many grave misconceptions that students hold about business can be cleared up by a program of summer jobs...
Richard G. Leahy, Harvard's co-ordinator for government relations and director of the laboratories of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, brought up another point against effort-reporting in a recent interview. "I feel that, because of the cost-sharing provision, effort-reporting has affected people who have just circumstantially become involved," he said. Mathematicians, for instance, who, for the most part, receive their government funds from the National Science Foundation, must file effort reports, since the NSF issues grants--as opposed to contracts--and therefore requires cost-sharing by the University. Harvard's share becomes a portion...
Emmanuel G. Mesthene, executive director of the University Program on Technology and Society, called the present situation a "lean" period. "The availability of scientific funds goes in waves," he said. "Sputnik, for instance, led to a fat period and the reins were loosened. The war in Vietnam, on the other hand, with its increased defense spending, has led to a lean period. I do not see an increasing trend of tightening reins in government support. We are simply in a lean period...