Word: forded
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...educator who really deserves the title "doctor." He started as a physician in Kansas, became dean of the University of Kansas medical school, later rose to chancellor of the university. While serving on Government and private cultural committees, he has been a director of companies as diverse as the Ford Motor Co., McCall Corp. and Hallmark Cards...
...Rome by returning to the city at the head of an army that helped him consolidate power; McNamara became Defense Secretary at the head of a much smaller army of civilian experts from the RAND Corp., who helped him to fend off admirals and generals. Similarly, the original Henry Ford resembles Napoleon Bonaparte because both became so surrounded by yes men that they were unaware of structural problems. Howard Hughes is not unlike Charles I of England in the sense that each was the victim of inevitable change from personal rule to group rule. Charles lost his head. Hughes sold...
...including the installation of computer consoles in each of the Houses. Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics and chairman of Wednesday's meeting, said the CEP postponed any resolution on the report and added, "The decisions are mainly budgetary and will have to be made by Dean Ford." Ford has said that the CEP has to judge only whether the recommendations, prepared by Frederick C. Mosteller, professor of Mathematical Statistics, and seven other Faculty members, are educationally sound...
...bluebook question started with a November HPC recommendation that booklets from all final examinations be returned to students. The CEP took no action on the resolution Wednesday and Brooks echoed Dean Ford's statement of a month ago that the only action needed on the HPC request was a reminder to the Faculty members to save exams for students who want them back. The CEP confirmed its vote of two weeks ago backing a new department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Details of the new department's structure, already outlined in an HPC audit on the Arch Sci Department, were...
...program in advanced environmental studies will include the creation of four new professorships, one of which was funded by a Ford Foundation grant last Fall...