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...often infallible instinct--a blend of pragmatic expertise and first-hand information--has made him one of the leading Soviet experts in the State Department. In 1959, he was recalled by Secretary of State Herter to serve in the newly created Bureau of Soviet Affairs. One of his associates has commented, "His special ability is his sense of political interrelationships. He can take an event and immediately see its impact on a whole series of other events in widely separated parts of the world...
Bernard B. Fall was not just another professor who wrote critical books and articles about America's policy in Vietnam. He didn't spend much time organizing petitions to the President. His first-hand reports of the war served as a far more convincing indictment...
Milgram hopes that if the project is successful, the students will publish the results. In the meantime, they will wait in William James for the first-hand accounts to come in the mail...
...address Harvard audiences--or anyone else. The Rindge Tech auditorium happens to be the largest one around Harvard. If a Harvard club asks to use it for a speaker, the reason is obviously that the group believes a great many people will want to hear the man's views first-hand. They should be able...
Timothy Leary, former lecturer in Clinical Psychology, termed anti-LSD laws "hysterical" and "unrealistic." He proposed that Brown try LSD to "discover first-hand why the young people of his state are willing to risk prison to expand their consciousness...