Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sponsored by the publishing firm of Atlantic-Little Brown, the grant will offer, as Coles put it, "faith, hope, and some charity" to his research. The manuscript, untitled as yet, concerns Coles' five years work with Negro and white students in the South and deals specifically with problems of desegregation. The grant includes a book contract for the completed work...
Murphy is reported to have said he was unavailable. It is believed that even if McNamara desired the position, Johnson would not let him leave Washington at this time. Bell, a former Harvard economist, has reportedly received a firm offer of the Foundation's vice-presidency in charge of international affairs. Bell also refused to comment on the job-shuffling...
...infancy, time sharing is already being used by busi ness, government and universities. Bos ton's Raytheon Co. prepares contract proposals, and Arthur D. Little solves problems in applied mechanics through a time-sharing system run by Cambridge's Bolt Beranek & Newman. An other time-sharing firm, Keydata, will soon take up the problems of Boston distributors of liquor, books, automo- bile parts and building materials. Con trol Data, which introduced two time-shared computers last week, will open the U.S.'s biggest sharing center in Los Angeles next year. General Electric al ready has 88 customers...
...Alsatian firm, in fact, built the locomotives for France's first railway...
...muted, modest tones his career until the time he joined the State Department in 1941. He recalls a comfortably idyllic New England boyhood (his English-born father was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut), his years as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, his practice with a Washington law firm. It is all consistently respectable and, alas, consistently unrevealing -except for one rewarding chapter on Under Secretary of the Treasury Acheson's squabble with F.D.R. The President's freewheeling economic policy offended Acheson's New England conservatism only slightly less than his flippant condescension to subordinates...