Word: panels
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Reischauer today is trying to find a way to combat the short-sightedness necessitated by the day-to-day nature of American government. In the interview last week, he suggested that the President appoint a special advisory panel at the highest level of the Administration whose sole purpose would be long range planning. Although the ultimate decisions would remain in the President's hands, this panel could propose solutions to crisis situations based on a detached view of the long-term national interest. Reischauer said he had mentioned the idea to several Faculty members, but had not yet made...
Aside from the conscious and obvious deference Katayama shows to Le Corbusier's building, there are more subtle relationships between the two designers. Katayama's white panel boxes have no curves, only planes and right angles that are contraforms to set off the flows in Thonet's wood. One wonders if Katayama had in mind Le Corbusier's statement that "the right angle is the primordial sign of the ordering and organizing spirit." And just as Carpenter Center has no real front or back--its axis diagonal to Quincy Street and entrance buried in the middle--so too Katayama...
...only chance that Britons had to express their judgment with ballots, the by-election voters of West Derbyshire more than doubled the Tory majority and dropped the Laborite candidate into third place behind the Liberal Party man. "It was a setback," Wilson said of devaluation on a TV panel. "The chancellor said that it was a defeat. The last two weeks for him and for me, and for a number of others, have been hell...
...Tights may take care of modesty in the wintertime, believes Rudi, but for summer they are simply too hot. "Since skirts as such are really disappearing, they have to have a different look," he announced, and proceeded to prescribe either puffy bloomers or Siamese skirts with a security panel wrapped between the legs. For braver women, he offered a wicked alternative: a black bikini bottom to match the briefest tent dress ever...
...register to vote in one town; he ordered a circuit clerk in an other to stop applying stricter voting requirements for Negroes than for whites; he knocked down a third town's ordinance restricting Negro marches and demonstrations; he voided, as a member of a three-judge panel, application of the state's poll tax in state and local elections. "When you are able to show him a set of outrageous facts, then he loses his innate conservatism," says Lawyer Al Bronstein of the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee...