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...Dwight H. Perkins, chairman of the Economics Department, said yesterday he considers Landes "a distinguished economic historian [who] will fit in as well in our department as in the History Department...
Harvard-Radcliffe admissions officers disagreed this week with the assertion of the takeover participants that the University has in recent years adopted policies to screen out applicants, either white or minority group members, who show a potential for radical student activism. Their reasons for disagreeing vary, however. Dwight Miller, an admissions officer since 1967, said this week that individual admissions officers may have altered their attitudes toward what types of students to admit during the late '60s and early '70s, but that such changes were "internally" motivated--personal reactions to events the admissions officers witnessed in their admissions and other...
Indeed, there are knowledgeable men around Washington who say the best presidential practitioners in foreign policy were Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Ike learned power commanding the Allied forces in Europe. Nixon studied the world and its leaders during his 16 years of global wanderings as the Vice President and a lawyer...
...Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Modern China Studies and Economics, said yesterday the Economics Department is strongly in favor of the journal...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower once observed that appointing Earl Warren Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was "the biggest damn fool thing I ever did." In The Memoirs of Earl Warren, to be published in June by Doubleday, the late Chief Justice spells out some details of his strained relationship with Ike. The former President, he writes, thought the Warren court was too soft on Communists. "What would you do with Communists in America?" the Chief Justice asked Eisenhower. His reply: "I would kill the s.o.b.'s." Nor did Eisenhower agree with the court's decision on school...