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...last year especially, the commission seems to have ignored this goal, plunging into polities with unmatched fervor. as a result of the controversies in which the agency has been engaged, Commissioners have become known by the polities they keep. Businessmen or scientists on the commission are popularly regarded as high-level lobbyists, and expected to uphold predetermined viewpoints on almost every issue...
Kubitschek is making shrewd use of this high-level opposition by posing as a courageous David pitted against a political Goliath. "They are not asking me for a political peace," he cried in a recent speech. "They want my capitulation . . . And that I will not give them...
...School, Associate Professor Charles M. Haar, conduct the program and many of the Fellows spread out into all these areas. Of course, Littauer can hardly teach them much about the particular tasks of their own specialized jobs. But the Fellows can find training in the techniques of high-level policy planning and their courses are designed to give them a certain perspective on fields outside their...
...said, "will largely be fought on economic battlegrounds . . . The uncommitted nations, dissatisfied with their ancient poverty, where half the people go to bed hungry every night, are waiting to see whether we or the Communists offer the best chance of shifting from their present low-level to a high-level economy. The U.S. and our western European allies cannot, in the long run, remain an island of prosperity in a sea of poverty. Nor do we want...
...vice-presidency of Time, Inc., and is now serving as U.S. representative to the U.N. Rockefeller will attend meetings of the Cabinet, the National Security Council, the Council on Foreign Economic Policy and the Operations Coordinating Board (the Government's nerve center for propaganda activities). The new high-level brain-truster has long followed the policy that his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Sr., laid down for philanthropic works: "Don't coddle; stimulate." At 32, Nelson went to President F. D. Roosevelt to persuade him of the need for economic and cultural development of Latin America in order...