Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sixty Years on the Firing Line, Krock...
Nixon will have certain advantages if he presses for what the bureaucrats have labeled SALT (for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks). No one has ever accused the new President of underestimating the Communists; he would take a tough, skeptical line in any domestic debate about the proceedings. And for the first time in many years, both the U.S. and Russia seem to be in phase regarding their staggeringly costly strategic commitments and conflicting domestic aspirations. This, far more than rhetorical gamesmanship by either side, could be the compelling factor leading to realistic bargaining...
...therefore propose that a new position--that of Vice President for External Affairs--be created, coequal in status and authority with the Administrative Vice President. The Vice President for External Affairs would have line authority over the Real Estate Office, the Planning Office, and the Office of Civic and Governmental Relations. In addition a new agency would be created and made responsible to the new Vice President--a clearing house for university community affairs...
...shouldn't President Pusey be forced to stand in line and take the crud that's served in student cafeterias?" asked Henry D. Aiken, former Harvard professor of Philosophy, in a New York Times interview published yesterday...
...Mumford is a scholar in the old-style as well--not the product of assembly line education, but a thinker without titles, whose formal education was night school at the City College of New York. Mumford calls himself a writer, but it's probably for lack of a better word. "The orthodox name is philosopher," he says, "but a philosopher today is a specialist. I loathe the very notion of expert...