Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Common's egregious record of assaults and hold ups means anything, and to the victims it certainly does, then the police are wrong. For example, only recently two brash gunmen halted and robbed a freshman. To the Radcliffe girl the Common is a short-cut between the Square and the regions beyond, but at night she wants little part of the vast expanses of darkness between the twinkle of a few overhead lights. They only other route is the Avenue--the long...
However, these government servants will not all be graduates of the College or Law School suddenly elevated to high position, but rather career bureaucrats who hold their civil service jobs regardless of administration politics. They are graduates of the Littauer Center of Public Administration, a school which has become so influential in the 15 years since it was founded that it is today recognized as the northern terminus of a two-way shuttle of experts between Harvard and Washington...
...influence that the Littauer School grabbed in the New Deal and will continue to hold in a Republican term is due to the simple belief that the administrator does more than administrate. He must be able, not merely to administer the laws which govern his department, but to lobby for new ones. He must be briefed in public policy as well as administrative practice...
...sudden importance of the agricultural extension program is typical of Littauer's development. The School has always been marked by constant change and unorthodox academic procedure. It was, for example, probably the only school in existence to hold classes for a year before it admitted any students. This was in 1937, when, after Lucius N. Littauer had donated over $2 million to establish the School and Center which bear his name, a special conference was held to blueprint the new approach to administration. Over 75 government leaders attended, some of them so important their names were barred from the press...
...Manoir or the Hotel Metropole or danced with taxi-girls at the Ritz and Paramount. At night, beneath their mosquito nets, they listened to the comfortable sound of their own artillery. Said an official spokesman: "There appears to be no reason why the besieged defenders of Nasan cannot hold out as long as planes can supply them...