Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy Polaris), registered the common complaint that Government agencies, bureaus, committees, staffs and boards interfere with quick and able decisionmaking. Contractors, he declared, are "bogged down in a labyrinth of advisers advising advisers ... We are often 'helped to death' by the hierarchy of Government agencies." Conflict-of-interest statutes defeat the Government's opportunities to hire the most able civilians for key posts. "We really cannot ask people to come down to Washington as experts for a problem as long as they have a vested interest in the very problem that they are trying to solve. This...
Where Hall closed his door to virtually everybody and worried about tapped telephone lines, Docking played the genial host. He put signs outside his office: "Come right in. The doors are closed only in the interest of efficient air conditioning." He made himself available to politicos, welcomed daily press conferences (and set up a coffeemaker for newsmen in his office suite), would interrupt almost any affair of state to have his picture taken with plain folks, who came in steady streams to pay their respects...
Particularly delightful is the love interest--a peasant girl (the sexless Russian ideal of beauty), sees a soldier (who leers in reply). She says "A Russian saint," grabs a rifle and joins the heroic defenders...
...with non-concentrators and auditors. In the past few years, the number of these courses has decreased until now, when it has apparently reached rock-bottom. The Department caters almost exclusively to the concentrator, offering a large number of theory courses which are too specialized to be of general interest...
...increase this fall of students enrolled in Music 1 indicates a growing interest in music in the student body. The Music Department should respond to this interest by offering next year more courses in individual composers, periods, and forms which have formerly met with such success...