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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty should liberalize Independent Study requirements sooner. Only honors juniors and seniors are eligible now for the program. By opening Independent Study to sophomores and non-honors students the Faculty would show that it meant what it seemed to say in approving the fourth-course pass-fail for all students last week--give students a chance to experiment outside their fields or pursue an idiosyncratic line of study without fearing damage to grade averages...
...these sessions he liked to cite John Kennedy's original direction to him: "Determine what forces are required and procure and support them as economically as possible." The first half of this mandate meant more spending. Even before the Viet Nam war reached major proportions, McNamara's budget was $10 billion above those of the last Eisenhower years because Kennedy was determined to establish his own military strategy-flexible response instead of John Foster Dulles' massive retaliation. Flexible response dictated that the nation must be able to meet any military challenge, whether nuclear, conventional or guerrilla...
...liked their work enough to wait out the original producers' option, then bought the property for $75,000, intending to produce as well as direct under a contract with Warner Bros. Sister Shirley was to star as Bonnie. Eventually, he decided that he ought to play Clyde, which meant that Shirley had to go; after all, the picture featured more than enough gore and transgressions without seeming to add incest to injury...
...director, Beatty signed up Arthur Penn, 45, a narrow, sparrowish Broadway veteran (Two For the Seesaw), whose Hollywood record included a few hits (The Miracle Worker), several flops (The Chase, Mickey One). Penn wanted the film edited in Manhattan, which meant that the choice of which scenes would end up on the cutting-room floor would take place 2,500 miles from the home base of Warner Bros. To Jack Warner, 75, who liked to make his own pick of the rushes, everything but salami should be cut in the studio. More problems were to follow-arguments about sound, music...
This represents a compromise between the once traditional system, where the Masters handled the whole business, and the system used for the class of '69, which was distributed without regard to preferences. The new system is meant to eliminate the old House popularity contest, yet still follow preferences as far as possible. Apparently, the Committee on House Assignments was satisfied that is what happened last year, and the Committee should be congratulated for ending one of Harvard's many low-key debates...