Word: folders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area man codes the various objective information in the folder-- the teachers' recommendation-- a one-to-nine scale for both admission and scholarship purposes and summarizes the results on a separate sheet. He then comments upon the folder as a whole, and, unless the applicant is clearly inadmissable, sends it to the next scheduled reader. When the folder has gone through three readings (only two if the applicant is particularly strong in every way), and has been assigned a PRL (Predicted Rank List), it is stored in a "coffin" to await being listed on a geographical docket and considered...
...officers presented and explained position papers. Those papers are first drafted on white paper, reprinted on buff paper when sent out to field commands for comment. By the time they reach the J.C.S., they have "gone green." If the Chiefs accept them, they are put in a red-striped folder and sent on to the Pentagon's civilian leaders as official J.C.S. recommendations. If the Chiefs reject a paper, it "goes purple." When the Chiefs split-as they often do-each one must write a report specifically explaining his position to McNamara; the Secretary has outlawed "waffling," a once...
...high number of applicants has necessitated one other change in the admissions procedure. Instead of everyone on the ten-member admissions Committee reading each folder, the Committee now reads in teams of two. But many folders, Mrs. Stimson explains, are read by everyone. "The committee system, where no one person has the final say, has always been the rule at Radcliffe," she said...
Otherwise, only minor administrative burdens are expected, according to Glimp. Each application folder of about 15 pages will still receive three readings and thorough discussion by members of the Committee. The only change in application requirements has been to require two teachers' recommendations from every candidate, instead of only the scholarship candidates...
Lyndon repaid Jenkins' devotion with expressions of the highest regard. Talking with reporters one night not long ago, the President buzzed for Jenkins, said warmly as Walter trotted in with a worn folder full of political polls: "He's always here. He's the best man I've got." With his rather heavy humor, the President called Jenkins "the Pope," in reference to Jenkins' Catholicism. Once, standing beside the swimming pool at the L.B.J. ranch, the President confided: "I had this pool put in just for the Pope's kids...