Word: masters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vexing question is whether the military has become the master of political policy rather than its instrument. Historically, the U.S. military as an institution has kept out of politics to a remarkable degree. One reason perhaps is that until the late '40s Americans never tolerated a peacetime military force large enough to be influential. That has changed radically. What Dwight Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex* constitutes an enormous power bloc that now embraces manufacturers, organized labor, local business interests, many scientists and nonprofit organizations that get defense contracts (see box opposite). Yet it is difficult to show a precise...
Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah, was a master of using his office for personal benefit. In six years of increasingly ruinous rule, the self-proclaimed "Redeemer" of Ghana managed to squander his way through the country's entire treasury of $560 million and run up another $1 billion in foreign debts. He built vast and useless public monuments as well as an overpowering presidential palace. To take care of odds and ends, he also accepted bribes in return for government favors...
...meetings progressed a number of Masters gave their reactions to the occupation and the administration response. Alan E. Heimert '49, Master of eliot House, expressed firm support for the three-day strike and a restructuring of the University, as well as student demands that the University drop criminal charges against demonstrators and there be a legal investigation of police behavior...
Both Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, and Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett, struck very different notes. Chalmers, while saying he was "disappointed that he was not consulted, said that if he had been, he would have supported the administration action...
...other extended debate concerned allowing Faculty and Administration members to remain in the building. The question was raised by the presence of Arthur Smithies, Master of Kirkland House, who was observing the proceedings and speaking to students...