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...restive University of California shifted from a visionary academic planner to a pragmatic scholarly manager last week in its choice of a new president. The regents unanimously selected Charles Johnston Hitch, 57, an economist who helped revolutionize money management in the Pentagon before moving to Cal as vice president for finance two years ago. He will take office on Jan. 1, succeeding Clark Kerr, who was fired eight months ago. Hitch survived the fine screening of a regents selection committee that started with 261 names, eventually worked down to six, including HEW Secretary John Gardner, Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns...
...this led to complaints that Mifrifi and the pump-priming program are no longer necessary, official soothsayers at Bonn's Economic Ministry believe that the upsurge of confidence in the business community is in anticipation of the $1.3 billion injection. The program is essential, says top Economic Planner Dr. Otto Schlect, "to assure a lasting revival of business...
...Dead End. The problem of moving this vast torrent of people between cities is difficult enough. But the real headache is handling the flow from city to airport and in the airports themselves. As William Pereira, master planner for the Los Angeles Airport Commission, puts it: "The real bottleneck in the jet age is not in the air but on the ground. We must break the ground barrier...
...your picture caption "Inchon landing, October 1950: Will history repeat?": Hank Walker, who risked his neck to get the picture, and the late meticulous planner, General Douglas Mac-Arthur, who risked his reputation in carrying out the landing, would be pained indeed at your arbitrary postponement of the event. September 15, 1950, was the only date within months when the enormous tides at Inchon, some 36 feet from ebb to flood, crested sufficiently to permit the landing to be made-successfully, as this former Marine can gratefully attest from firsthand experience...
South Viet Nam's sprawling Mekong Delta is a military planner's nightmare. May-to-October monsoon rains churn the paddyfields into oceans of viscous slop that bogs down troopers and tanks alike. But for all its unpleasant mud, the Delta is far too vital to be ignored. It is the home of one-third of South Viet Nam's 16.5 million people, produces fully one-half of the country's food. It is also infested with Viet Cong. As long as the U.S. has concentrated most of its military muscle in other areas...