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...them. In addition, he was assigned allocation orders which, in theory at least, entitled him to buy such scarce materials and goods as he needed . . . His job was to produce the planned output, and as much more as possible, with the resources that were made available to him. Merie Fainsod, "How Russia is Ruled" (1963 edition only...
...Guesswork. It is not easy to say who should be believed. From Jeremy Wolfenden, London Daily Telegraph correspondent in Moscow, came word that "Russian sources decisively reject the idea that Mr. Khrushchev will retire either from the premiership or the secretaryship of the party." Merle Fainsod, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, said Crankshaw "is spinning things out rather thin." William Griffith, research associate on Communist affairs at M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies, declared, "I would not say that the weight of evidence is on Crankshaw's side." But just in case it was, Griffith...
...five seniors elected marshals of the Radcliffe graduating class are: Margaret T. Bainbridge, Joanna C. Bartlett, Elizabeth S. Fainsod, Mira Nakashima, and Adele D. Smith...
...Times article said W. Averill Harriman, former Ambassador to Moscow, and Philip E. Mosely of the Council of Foreign Relations, are very high on the list at the moment. Mosely is a soviet specialist, as are Fainsod and Marshal D. Shulman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, who was also mentioned...
Commenting on the question of whether to appoint a career officer, a public figure, or a specialist, Shulman said, "I feel strongly that Fainsod or Mosely would bring a great deal of experience and insight of particular usefulness in this rapidly changing period in Soviet policy...