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...Center. Though organized as a part of Harvard for only three years, the DAS really began 14 years ago when Mason and the Ford Foundation set up an economic advisory office in Pakistan at the request of its government. Another office soon followed in Iran. With the help of David Bell, then a lecturer in Economics, Mason handled the DAS himself until four years ago when the growing task was too much...
Though no one will deny that the new building will help extensively by bringing together various departments and their libraries, there are nevertheless some reservations. "The building will serve the University's purposes well," says Mason, "but it may also blur the autonomy of the Center...
McDonnell is betting that new money and his own management will not only help unsnarl Douglas' production lines, choked with a $3.2 billion backlog in jet-airliner orders, but build a team able "to compete successfully for any future aerospace program." Lewis, a Georgia Tech-educated aeronautical engineer who will move into Douglas as soon as the merger is final, last week got an idea of the size of his job. The company did not even match Donald Jr.'s dismal prediction last July that fiscal 1966 "earnings, if any, would be nominal." It announced a $27 million...
Evolving Developments. Some of the fellows also turn teacher twice a month, hold noncredit seminars for undergraduates. Kuchel's former aide, Stephen Horn, for example, recently held one on the Republican Party, enlisted G.O.P. Strategists F. Clifton White and Malcolm Moos to help out. The institute's faculty, most of whom hold professor- ships in other Harvard departments as well, also conduct action-oriented studies, such as an 18-month probing of "evolving developments in Europe," headed by Adam Yarmolinsky, a one-time Pentagon and poverty aide who fell out of favor with Lyndon Johnson...
Half Loaded. The minor members of the company were no less help to the cause of Afro-Anglo-American friendship. One evening after the day's shooting, for example, American Negro Actor Raymond St. Jacques wandered into the Plage bar dressed in a gaudy, pajama-like African garment called a sapara, accented by a gold earring in his left ear. A half-loaded American businessman turned to his drinking companion and said loudly, "Hey! Look how colorful that...