Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II, the U.S. has contributed $115.6 billion in aid to other nations - a massive contribution, not withstanding the fact that it also served U.S. policy - and supplemented the official amounts by uncounted millions in private philanthropy. The Rockefeller Foundation contribution to medicine has had worldwide benefits; the Ford Foundation is now contributing millions to pilot projects that may offer solutions to some of the problems of the cities. There is in the American temperament an evangelical conscience, and it can be aroused...
...underfunded. If Congress fully applied the Model Cities Program to the 130 or 140 cities involved, the annual cost could reach $4 billion or $5 billion a year. To make supplementary compensatory grants for the education of poor children wholly effective would require $3 billion. Nixon assured Henry Ford of his support for the on-the-job training administered by private industry; a three-year program for 1,500,000 hard-core unemployed would cost the Treasury $1.5 billion per year. As for reforming or replacing the welfare system, the estimates for the various income maintenance schemes that have been...
...causing a disturbance. But those of us who still remember some of the history of this century, feel obliged to weigh the evil we are fighting in the same balance with the rules we may be breaking: you have to consider the issues, and live with what Franklin Ford calls "complexity." Most of us had done that, individually, and in an exhausting round of meetings. Most of us also wanted the Harvard community to think about those issues and those complexities, and not confine discussion of ways to elevate the intellectual content of ROTC courses. It is worth noting that...
...SFAC and HUC) the moral question of the academic inappropriateness of ROTC to a university, and convert it into the amoral question of the academic insufficiency of ROTC courses. (Sec, for instance, the relatively indignant press release of the chairmen of the three committees after their press conference with Ford, just before the Paine Hall demonstration...
...entirely clear why the Faculty should ever want to close a portion of a meeting. The idea certainly cannot be to keep what transpires a secret, for word-of-mouth and the CRIMSON's artificial reconstruction of the meeting with Dean Ford's help make the goings-on more or less public property. But assuming the Faculty wants such an option, it should be one the Faculty exercises in special cases rather than a standard which students must repeatedly petition their way around...