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...illustrates his point with liberal examples from his own field of conservation and resources planning. From Maass' analysis it seems that the Budget Bureau under Truman set a precedent for two growing practices in Washington today: postponement of embarrassing decisions, and such a fear of making mistakes as to hamper suggestion of new ideas...
Asked whether the small size of the graduate schools does not hamper the education they can provide, Taylor says, "On the contrary, since we operate on a smaller group we can do a much more intensive job. The graduate schools here have chosen to compete with graduate schools elsewhere on the basis of quality of the student's education rather than the number of students turned out. We think we make as much or more contribution to the field of Chemistry with our eight or ten Ph.D.'s a year as say, Illinois can with...
Despite this rigid top hamper, the innate cumbersomeness of the school system, and the enormous tasks to which it has addressed itself, Jansen feels well justified in pointing with modest pride to dozens of its accomplishments. He makes no apologies for its elephantine proportions. "New York," he says simply, "is a fact. You can't break it into smaller cities...
...University permit overnight parking on all streets used for parking during the daytime so that the students who cannot afford to keep their car in a garage will have the opportunity to take their chances on finding a space at night in a spot which will not hamper the fire department in its operations. An enforcement of meter laws during the daytime will eliminate the possibility of business firms suffering from space "hogging." John W. Stephens...
...quiet conference outside the Senate chamber last week, Majority Leader Robert A. Taft and New Mexico's Clinton Anderson (whose ailing heart was beginning to hamper his leadership of the marathon-talking Democratic opposition) agreed that it was time to call a halt to the 21-day offshore oil filibuster (TiME, May 4). The Senate quickly approved a plan to vote this week on the Holland bill, which grants seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries. In total, the filibuster: 1) aroused no public outcry against the bill, 2) changed few senatorial...