Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Department was not unaware of the project. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert B. Anderson had heard of the program and invited Leach to Washington to discuss with Carter L. Burgess, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel, the potential of the program as a training course for career defense personnel. Burgess at that time expressed a desire for employing people who had taken Leach's course...
Leach tried with little success to obtain funds for the project during the summer of 1954. David F. Cavers, associate Dean of the Law School, suggested that Leach try the Ford Foundation...
Since neither the Law School nor Littauer had room for his new project, Leach had to find office space. He soon moved into most of the first floor of the Geographical Institute at 2 Divinity Ave., where he and his staff are now comfortably established in furnishings valued at nearly $7,000 by some of his less fortunate colleagues...
Leach envisions inevitable expansion for his project, but he must first find permanent financial backing for the program. Grants from foundations are usually offered for short terms, with the expectation that the projects will be able to find other backers once established. But after Leach recruits some "angels," he plans to develop the program into a field with continuity. He eventually wants related courses of study offered in the College, starting with the junior year. These courses would lead to a series of seminars and graduate courses...
...increasing importance of the Cold War, as well as the interest developing in universities throughout the country, is beginning to prove Leach was correct in anticipating the magnitude and importance of his pilot project...