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...Logic Factories. One consequence of such snags is the swift rise of software service and consulting companies, which offer high-level technical support, such as systems design or programming to meet individual specifications. By one estimate, there are now some 2,500 of these logic factories, the bulk of them one-to three-man shops. At least two dozen are publicly owned corporations. The largest, Los Angeles' Computer Sciences Corp., has grown from a two-man firm in 1959 into a $37 million-a-year enterprise with 2,500 employees and 156 customers...
Robert R. Bowie, Director of the Center for International Affairs, will not return to Cambridge this fall, but will remain in Washington in a high-level policy post as the State Department's counselor...
...cold-war Summits during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, most notably the 1960 Paris meeting that broke up over the U-2 incident as soon as it began, and John Kennedy's unhappy Viennese deadlock with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. Also, Washington officialdom has a built-in predisposition against high-level meetings without detailed preparation and a concrete agenda. Finally, the Administration was opposed to a meeting that would strengthen Kosygin's hand in his Middle Eastern propaganda push, which was the main reason for his visit...
...Russians are also disenchanted with the Arabs. In one Middle Eastern capital after another, Russian diplomats were advising Moscow against wasting more MIGs or money on the Arabs. Just before the war started, high-level Soviet officers visited Egyptian positions and were horrified to find that tanks were placed too far forward, artillery was improperly positioned, and warplanes were lined up like sitting ducks. The Soviets reported all this in detail to the Egyptians, who chose to ignore the warning...
...December 1966, Dean Sizer agreed to let students sit on the FCAP and on the Admissions Committee. But some members of the faculty still question whether these high-level administrative groups are the best forum for a student-faculty dialogue...