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Carrying this theme significantly further, the September 1969 field report implies strongly that a host of other groups, foremost among them the DAS, has leapt in to fill the position of influence vacated by the IMF. It says in part that "among the diverse programs of assistance to [the planning agency]... a natural division of labor has emerged, and the various efforts have so far exhibited a high degree of complementarity. The DAS concentrates on broad policy; the [World Bank] team on sector programs and project development; the Tinbergen [Dutch] team on three specific subject matters-regional-planning, manpower...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: DAS: Confidential Memoranda | 11/18/1970 | See Source »

...would sometimes be screams. People would be real brave and shout "Don't," but it would still happen, and they would have the narcissistic satisfaction of having protested the act. Once, and it must have been a spectacular moment, many in the audience must have been shaking, a man leapt from his seat as the lighter moved toward the butterfly, and beat the magician to the floor...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: Sorting Out City Life | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...words leapt like a leaping sword...

Author: By Lawrence S. Dicara, | Title: Sail On! Sail On! Sail On and On! | 3/5/1970 | See Source »

Social Sciences 134, taught by John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economies, has leapt from seventh place last year to second, with 350 students. this Fall Galbraith's course on "The Modern Industrial Society" has bumped Economics 1 to third place from a position in the top two which it held for the previous five years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enrollment Falls In Math, Science, Rises In Soc Sci | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

JOHN HAMMOND, the great blues singer, leapt scornfully upon me for designating myself as an "underground" musician...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Fading in Rock Phantasmagoria: A Personal Autopsy of the Boston Sound | 1/22/1969 | See Source »

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