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...cartoonists had not had such juicy fun in months. It was promptly and widely assumed that Kennedy himself had instigated the accusation, that the President was trying to sandbag Stevenson out of the U.N. That so much importance would be attached to a magazine article was in part an outgrowth of the somewhat bizarre and distorted atmosphere that prevails in Washington. No other Administration has so single-mindedly followed the proposition that "news is a weapon" (see PRESS). No other President has maintained such close personal contacts with newsmen. Aware of the Kennedy method of the indirect nudge, the planted...
Last week, a member of the House team journeyed to the prison to "size up" the competition. Although he came back optimistic concerning the upcoming challenge, an outgrowth of the Prisons Program, it is the consensus of the Leverett men that the prison team could probably whip most of the other Houses in competition...
Within the University, Soc Rel 183 (Field Work in Mental Health) was formed as an outgrowth of the PBH Committee...
...technical fact, the transfer of the reactor and 13,000 grams of enriched uranium will take place under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency, of which both the U.S. and Yugoslavia are members. The agency, an outgrowth of Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace proposals of 1953, is supposed to make sure that the reactor is used only for peaceful purposes. The transfer was first approved 13 months ago by John McCone, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and was reaffirmed a few weeks ago when the AEC signed an agreement to supply the uranium fuel...
...trend is a logical outgrowth of the deskless office. Since most executives want to show that they are policy thinkers who leave routine paperwork to underlings, desks have tended to disappear. Furthermore, explains Arnold Maremont, president of Chicago's automotive products firm, the Maremont Corp.: "A man sitting behind a desk is a man on horseback. He becomes a dictator." The same desire for informality applies in the board room. Abandoning the austere, paneled room built around a massive, no-nonsense board table, directors of more and more firms sit on upholstered chairs and comfortable couches, chat over...