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...Better." Baxter meanwhile found time to serve as deputy director of the OSS in World War II. publish a Pulitzer prizewinning history (Scientists Against Time) in 1946, write much of the secret Gaither Committee report on U.S. defenses in 1957. He vice-chaired the American Council on Education, headed the Association of American Colleges and the boards of visitors of both Annapolis and West Point. Still able and willing, Baxter this year will be Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan, next year teach at Dartmouth, and eventually settle near Harvard, where he plans to write...
Died. Horace Rowan Gaither Jr., 51, lawyer and investment banker who served variously as assistant director of M.I.T.'s wartime Radiation Laboratory, board chairman of the prestigious Rand Corp. and president of the Ford Foundation, a powerful but little known administrator until he took center stage in 1957 with ' his controversial, still secret "Gaither Report," said to warn of perilous deficiencies in U.S. defenses; of lung cancer; in Boston...
...second term he has created a greenhouse-full of professional seer squads, some of which have been very remarkable indeed. Perhaps the best-known of all these prophetic ventures are the Draper Committee (an impartial group of private citizens whose job was to recommend foreign aid policy), the Gaither Committee (to review defense strategy), the Nixon Committee on Price Stability and Economic Growth, and the National Committee on Goals chaired by Henry Wriston...
...House kettle once again obscures the windows with a heavy cloud of steam. The recommendations of the Draper report, many of which were very sound, were apparently never considered, for there is no reflection of them in the President's foreign aid programs. Everybody knows what happened to the Gaither Report; it was locked away for fear, in Herblock's words, that people who read it might "die of happiness." Vice-President Nixon's report, a frankly partisan statement of Republican economic aims, alone managed to survive...
...They Shall Not Rise." Jake Gaither fans the fire of combat in his players, encourages rivalry among them by dividing them into three separate units dubbed "Blood. Sweat and Tears." The son of a Methodist minister. Gaither is a revivalist orator. "Baby." he cries, striding into a locker room before a game, "you know what's going against us today." The players shout their enthusiastic reply. "We'll have to hit hard," yells Gaither. "We'll have to run hard . . . We must be hungry." Each Gaither pep talk ends with the team chanting an incantation whose origins...