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...defense expert summed up Wilson's memoranda as "a lopping off of the Army's ability to move and, in a measure, to fight." Wilson's statement that the Air Force "currently provides adequate airborne lift in the light of currently approved strategic concepts" is "disagreeably misleading," the author said...
...State Department flowed a torrent of policy decisions and position papers, hopes and trends and agreements, formal notes and informal memoranda-not to mention visiting foreign ministers and ambassadors-all symbolizing the quickening tempo of the cold war. Items of the week...
With the thermometer dropping towards ten degrees, undergraduates will register for the spring term today, filing into Memorial Hall from 1 to 5p.m. to sign cards and read memoranda...
...Agreement. Volpe demanded that Dixon produce the written evidence of these first negotiations. Up to the time Dixon-Yates made its first proposal to AEC, said Dixon, "virtually nothing" was put on paper. All engineering consultations, cost estimates, etc., were made verbally, said Dixon, without minutes or memoranda, with only "some worksheets" filed for future reference...
...nation. We come back to where we started-to the President. The decisions are his. Helped by his advisers, ultimately he must decide. The volume of work which should be done is appalling. It cannot be got through by listening to oral presentations, or "briefings," or reading one-page memoranda. It has to be sweated out. The facts have to be mastered, the choices and their consequences understood-so far as consequences can be understood, and then, upon "judgments and intuitions more subtle than any articulate major premise," the decision made...