Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ring like a bullet. Publicly McNamara stumbled only once-and that was to his credit. In early February he casually told Washington newsmen that he did not think that the U.S. stood in any danger from a missile gap. Since the missile gap had been a standard item of the Democratic attack on the Eisenhower Administration, Republicans made the most of Administration discomfiture. McNamara himself went quietly back to his work...
...very remote." The U.S., he went on, would have to spend at least another billion "to achieve the first experimental flight." The President proposed to shunt "the entire subject matter" of nuclear-powered flight to the budget of the Atomic Energy Commission, where "it belongs as a nondefense research item...
...less distasteful than so many Faculty evidently think it. The experiment has been tried; it is time that discussion of it be carried from the confines of the office of Advanced Standing. The Faculty ought at last to have its chance to see it brought up as a separate item on its docket, and to consider ending...
...player, the student pulls a lever to make a frame appear in the window. He ponders, writes his answer, pulls the lever again. The answer moves under glass (to prevent his changing it) and the correct answer appears. As the Skinnerian student clicks along, he concentrates fully on each item, advancing only when he is ready to answer. If he gets spring fever he may stop work, but at least he misses nothing, as he would in class. If he wants to soar ahead...
...believe we are agreed that the distribution of rooms is of vital importance because it touches on educational opportunity in college. It is precisely for this reason, and because I do not consider it a luxury item, that in my opinion ability to pay should not be the criterion used in assigning rooms. No room-drawing system can provide better facilities where they do not exist, but neither, may I add, does it worsen the physical situation. I am troubled by the implication in your editorial that those students whose families' financial situation is less favorable are thereby better prepared...