Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monetary crisis shows the disastrous effects of fear and confusion. Let us hope Mr. Nixon learns the lesson. He must take positive steps to build a healthy monetary system the first few weeks he is in office. If he resorts to more self-defeating gimmicks, as the present Administration has, we shall likely have the worst recession since...
Under No Gun. Like most proposed reforms, Nixon's looked fine on paper. Whether in fact they will prove more efficacious than the present system is uncertain. Much will depend on the quality of the brainpower assembled under Kissinger, the ability of the State Department and the Pentagon to function more independently than at present while still satisfying the President, and whether the pace and press of developments abroad permit the top echelon of Government the luxury of deep thought...
...Geneva Conference of the Big Four, a protracted dispute was finally ended when the U.S., Russia, Britain and France agreed to sit at a round table while the East and West Germans sat at small, square, separate tables precisely six pencil widths from the main table. To solve the present impasse in Paris, some officials have suggested that no formal tables be used-but then the negotiators would argue over the size and shape of the coffee tables that would be needed to accommodate their ashtravs, water pitchers and doodling pads...
...advantages of either concept over the present welfare system are numerous. Either would leave people poor by just about any definition-no plan offers more than a meager subsistence-but the most brutal poverty would be eliminated. Most of the 17 million not covered by welfare now would be included for the first time: with a floor under them, many families would begin to break the cycle of poverty that has kept them on welfare for, in some cases, three generations...
...this whole context, the present ROTC arrangement is anomalous, with special reference to the University's freedom to determine its own curriculum content and to make its own Faculty appointments by its own standards. Since ROTC is mainly located in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, I think both that these two invasions of University independence (academic freedom) are out of place, and that such elements of "training" of officers in the armed services as there is, should be abandoned...