Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soft, low-contrast woods scene--but really, one must say that this kind of photography usually fails to show anything significant in the photographer's selection of scene and lighting. I can't find much that is exciting or worth-while about a picture of a steamer (out of focus) tied up at a dock; but I do find a great deal in longshoremen struggling with their tasks...
MERGERS. Implicit in Kennedy's message was a more relaxed Washington attitude toward railroad and airline mergers that would help to eliminate duplicate facilities. Where the Government has previously tended to focus chiefly on the antitrust aspects of mergers, greater weight now seems likely to be given to purely economic considerations. The President pointedly ignored requests by the rail unions that he restrain mergers which might endanger jobs...
...chic. Greek-born widow of former (1944-55) French Ambassador to the U.S. Henri Bonnet, whose World War II Gaullist activities she supported by opening a millinery shop in New York and whose postwar diplomatic success she ably furthered by restoring the dilapidated French embassy as the elegant focus of Washington society; of cancer; in Paris...
Utopian Hopes. Looking far ahead are scientists who think of "nonphysical" techniques. This is what Lewis C. Bohn, an arms-control specialist, calls "knowledge detection." Says Bohn: "Instead of focusing on the violation itself as a secret physical phenomenon, one can focus on knowledge concerning it, as a mental phenomenon in the heads of human beings." He suggests that an international arms control body might be given access to, say, 1,000 citizens of each country- a cross section of high-ranking people including industrialists, scientists, bankers, even Cabinet ministers, who would be regularly quizzed with...
...order to have a staff you must be able to attract people from outside; for that purpose you need more than a "focus of attention" and even more than a good deal of worthy but disconnected activity. One method of making Harvard look appealing is to have a Center already--admittedly impossible. Another is to tie the program onto an existing center, that for International Affairs: This might once have been a good idea--because the Center's prestige and that of Robert Bowie, its director, are enormous--but the decision to work through Pusey rather than Bowie has, irrevocably...