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...most carefully guarded files in the Littauer Building is a folder of eighty odd sketches of members of the Economics Department by Professor Wassily Leontief. The secretaries of the building regard the collection jealously as theirs by right of salvage; after each conference one of them Leontief's memorandum pad, date it, and add it to the series. "Not many professors know about it," says the current holder. "But some of them sneak in once in a while to see themselves...
...what has become famous as "input-output" economics, which studies the inter-relationships of the commodity-flows among the various sectors of the economy. The terms of his initial small grant were pessimistic; one clause provided, "Mr. Leontief will report even if he fails." "They wanted at least a memorandum for their money," he recalls...
...returned their verdict: by a majority of 5 to 4, they granted an indefinite stay of injunction, provided that the Government appealed to the Supreme Court within two days. In effect, the Government could hold the steel mills until the Supreme Court handed down a ruling. In a subsequent memorandum, the majority explained why they had granted the stay of injunction. They found two arguable points in Pine's ruling: 1) In the past, the Supreme Court had held that emergencies gave the President the right to seize private property, and 2) since the U.S. Government is liable...
...house on London's Chesham Place, once the Czarist Russian embassy, for a harrowing two-day grilling. There, in groups of six, the candidates show their paces before a government official, a psychologist and perhaps a university don. Each is required to make a speech, write a memorandum, chairman a mock committee meeting. The examiners no longer look so closely at clothes or manners. "Of course," said one, "if a man comes in with his hands in his pockets and smoking a cigarette before he has even asked to, he makes a rather poor impression...
...memorandum, according to defense secretary aides orders local boards to defer up to 129,500 men in R.O.T.C. units...