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...Indeed, Max Millikan, the sage director of M.I.T.'s International Center, frowned on the surge of CIA-phobia. "The number of my friends around here who have swallowed this 'invisible government' line is disturbing," he said. "They think there is an entirely separate foreign policy being concocted by people in dark corners. When they say that this kind of work is immoral, what they're saying is that it's immoral to have anything to do with telling the President what the world is really like...
...part in Ford Foundation and other development missions in the fifties (Mason, Galbraith, David Bell). By the late fifties the study of development economics centered in the seminar organized at Harvard by Galbraith, with the later collaboration of Mason and Bell, and in the work carried on by Max Millikan, Rostow, P.N. Rosenstein-Rodan and others at the MIT Center for International Studies...
...this came the argument that the true role of foreign aid was neither military nor technical assistance but the organized promotion of national development. Millikan and Rostow made an early statement of this viewpoint in a book of 1957, A Proposal -- Key to a More Ef- fective Foreign Policy; and Rostow gave the idea its historical rationale three years later in The Stages of Economic Development. The Charles River analysis made several contributions of great significance. First of all, it offered the aid program what it had long lacked -- specific criteria for assistance. The goal, the Charles River economists said...
Died. Clark Blanchard Millikan, 62, California Institute of Technology aeronautics professor, a leading pioneer in wind-tunnel research and recipient, with his late father, Caltech Head Dr. Robert A. Millikan, of a 1949 Presidential Medal for Merit for their contribution to the development of the jet-assisted take-off rocket (1941) and the U.S.'s first successful high-altitude sounding rocket (the 1945 WAC Corporal); of congestive heart failure, in Pasadena, Calif...
...Mountaineering Club, were led by club president Henry L. Abrons '63, of Dunster House and Scarsdale, N.Y.. The others were: Edward C. Carman '63, of Dunster House and Nashville, Tenn.; Christopher Goetze '61, of Randolph, N.H.; John A. Graham '64, of Lowell House and Tacoma, Wash.; Richard G.C. Millikan '63, of Leverett House and Berkeley, Cal.; David S. Roberts '65, of Dunster House and Boulder, Colo.; and Donald C. Jensen '65, of Dunster House and Walnut Creek...