Word: mason
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...think the goal was chimerical," reflects Edward S. Mason, Lamont University Professor and one of the original senior members of the Center. "Countries cannot spare their leading policy makers for six or eight months. The Fellows who have come to the Center are capable public officials, but no one could pretend they were the top policy makers in their countries...
...countries--an emphasis that has not always been of first importance at the Center. "This trend has not been deliberate," says Schelling, explaining that three of the four senior Faculty members at the Center's beginning, Kissinger, Bowie, and himself, concentrated on Atlantic problems, diplomacy, and Eastern Europe. Only Mason studied underdeveloped countries...
...Development Advisory Service has expanded interest in economic development that was absent in the early days of the Center. Though organized as a part of Harvard for only three years, the DAS really began 14 years ago when Mason and the Ford Foundation set up an economic advisory office in Pakistan at the request of its government. Another office soon followed in Iran. With the help of David Bell, then a lecturer in Economics, Mason handled the DAS himself until four years ago when the growing task was too much...
...then re-organized it into a semi-independent part of the Center for International Affairs. Harvard appoints the permanent staff here, and contracts are negotiated through the Center. But a separate University committee, chaired by Mason, meets five or six times a year to set DAS policy...
Although the DAS has had no formal teaching function in the past, this year it is undertaking a graduatelevel course and using cases drawn from the experience of overseas advisers. Moreover, a slew of professors in economics--Simon S. Kuznets, Arthur Smithies, John R. Meyer, and Mason, to name a few--have gone out with the DAS to consult with field experts and then applied their findings in courses...