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...deficits [in space] become even more compelling when viewed in the context of what our competitors are doing,” he wrote in a February memo to the University’s top planner Kathy Spiegelman, referring to recently-built student centers at Columbia and Princeton. “Harvard’s standing as the premier college in America, on which so much of the University’s reputation rests, should not be taken for granted as invulnerable if the problems discussed here are not addressed by University planners...
LIFE magazine got hold of the story, and for a brief moment, a few of the women--the media dubbed them "astronettes"--sparkled as minor celebrities. But the macho culture of the space program was too entrenched to accommodate them. Vice President Lyndon Johnson scribbled on a memo about the initiative, "Let's stop this now!"--and without much fanfare, it was stopped. The quest to put an American woman in space devolved into bureaucratic infighting and congressional subcommittee meetings, complete with cameos by John Glenn and Scott Carpenter and predictable old-boy jokes about the need for women...
Conditions improved in the 1940s and '50s, but only slightly. An October 1964 State Department memo noted that Iraq Petroleum Co. had long fixed production "in accordance with the overall worldwide interests of the participating companies, and not solely in accordance with the interests of Iraq." Later, production was curbed because of internal political turmoil during the '70s, the Iran-Iraq war in the '80s and U.N. sanctions from 1990 until today...
...this was merely the overture to the next U.S. foreign-policy decision rooted in oil. This time the players were the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. In 1977 the CIA sounded an alarm on the Soviets' faltering energy prospects in a secret 14-page memo titled "The Impending Soviet Oil Crisis." The agency concluded that the Soviet Union, which had been self-sufficient in oil, was running out and would soon become a major importer. "During the next decade," the report said, "the U.S.S.R. may well find itself not only unable to supply oil to Eastern Europe and the West...
...hope to relieve some of the pressure you and your families may feel and to contribute to a sense of community at Harvard should you elect to stay,” Lewis wrote in the memo...