Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Westmoreland and McNamara. On a plush easy chair alongside the couch sat the President. When the audience of reporters was assembled, there ensued an extraordinary tableau. Whether or not it figures in future histories of Southeast Asia, it should certainly merit a mention in some Harvard Business School study of executive technique...
Since that time the merit of his decision has become increasingly clear. No scholar writing on Trotsky--or, for that matter, on the Russian Revolution -- can afford to overlook the Trotsky archives in Houghton library. In recent years even a few scholars from the Soviet Union have looked at the papers. Bond, Houghton's president librarian, has shown a number of Russians through the library and several have asked to see the Trotsky archives. One historian, after briefly examining Trotsky's diary, commented "Yes, that's his handwriting." Several years ago a former Russian Minister of Culture asked permission...
...thing about Walter Winshall is that he does like to keep busy. Son of a Detroit dentist, he graduated from high school after winning a National Merit Scholarship and enrolled at 16 in an electrical-engineering course at Cambridge's Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There he was an editor of the student weekly, played intercollegiate freshman hockey, participated in intramural football and softball, was rushing chairman of his fraternity, played a nice game of bridge, invested in the stock market, dated lots of girls (sometimes two in the same night), graduated in 1964 with a B average, and enrolled...
...committee's recommendations, giving students a part in decisions that were committing huge sums of money to housing plans to which many girls object, were commendable, and the Council should be sharply criticized for not recognizing the merit of those recommendations and approving them...
...freshmen were among the challengers. Two months after he swallowed the four-incher, Lothrop Withington and ten others, including Endicott Peabody II, complained that the Houses were rejecting the leaders of the freshman class and accepting mediocre upperclassmen. They were going to fight for a strict merit system...