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...such ways is sorting the events of the last twelve months and making some sense of them mad edifficult. There has always been a small percentage in predicting. Nevertheless, it is possible to isolate some trends which seemed significant. Ten or fifteen years from now, some of them may still be significant...
...says, "It was a risky venture. Before World War II the study of China was considered a risky enterprise. His (Fairbank's) hope at that time was that most of us would go into government." But instead they spread out to other universities, in fifteen years populating most of the China research centers...
There would be no massive influx of secret agents, as some Senators fear. By most estimates, no more than ten to fifteen officials would be added to the Russian diplomatic corps here. Even J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I. and the nation's most enthusiastic bloodhound, admits that the government could handle any threat the new arrivals might pose...
...Fifteen cents, son." The man tucked one of the papers from under his arm under the arm of the student, and whistled down the street. When somebody else unfolded the paper the headline did not relate to Secretary McNamara, nor did any story on the front page. The headlines were not even clear. It occurred to the three students, almost at once, that the man with the grey cap and the Harvard sweatshirt was in some way illegal...
...number of Harvard graduates going on to schools of education almost doubled over the past year, from 16 to 31. Fifteen of these went to Harvard. Fifteen Cliffies are in ed school, eight of them at Harvard...