Word: planner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Things are so bad in Communist East Germany that even the Communists are talking publicly about it. Fortnight ago, submitting East Germany's 1961 economic goals to the party's Central Committee, top Politburo Planner Bruno Leuschner asked rhetorically: "Do we have difficulties?" Dourly, he answered himself: "Ja-wohl, we do." He ticked them off: "Unsatisfactory raw material supplies." "no more labor reserves," "failure to achieve a continuous supply of consumer goods...
Testifying in three announced capacities was Charles William Eliot II '20, professor of City and Regional Planning. As a landscape architect, he stressed the importance of saving open land in metropolitan areas, while as a city planner he predicted that such a plan would make "one colossal mess out of the Harvard Sq. area...
Since the days when the Marshall Plan silently and efficiently rebuilt Europe, no phrase has possessed a more magic significance for the policy planner on a grand scale than "foreign aid." The professor who writes a manifesto for American action in foreign affairs, the Presidential candidate who appeals for his country's generosity and sacrifice as the qualities most essential for moving ahead, the President who delivers a moving State of the Union message on the wretched state of the underdeveloped countries: each one prophesies that if the cold war is to be won, and the suffering and poverty...
...race for the House, but gave up his seat this year to devote himself to Kennedy's campaign. Over the years, he has turned out dozens of articles and seven books on foreign affairs and economics, all of them vibrating with the liberal tones of the big-government planner and spender. With Kennedy's blessing he was chief author of the eloquent thousand and one Utopian promises in the Democratic platform in Los Angeles. He also served as a somewhat neglected Kennedy foreign policy adviser in the campaign...
...Knights. Frederick ("Fritz") Loewe is Viennese, emotional, a flamboyant gambler who thinks the second biggest thrill on earth is to drop $30,000 in a single night at the casino tables, then tell about it for weeks. Alan Jay Lerner is cool, self-controlled and self-censored, a planner who will not even put money in his own shows because, as he firmly explains, "I don't bet." Loewe likes to recall that he "starved" for 20 years; Lerner has always been wealthy. Short, lean, with the sallow skin of the heart patient, Loewe is 59 and looks it; about...