Word: rand
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...Robert S. McNamara, yet the two resemble each other in important respects. Caesar took over Rome by returning to the city at the head of an army that helped him consolidate power; McNamara became Defense Secretary at the head of a much smaller army of civilian experts from the RAND Corp., who helped him to fend off admirals and generals. Similarly, the original Henry Ford resembles Napoleon Bonaparte because both became so surrounded by yes men that they were unaware of structural problems. Howard Hughes is not unlike Charles I of England in the sense that each was the victim...
TOMORROW'S WORLD: BEYOND THE SKY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Where man may eventually go in space, with predictions and comments by George Robino of the U.S. Geological Survey, Rand Corp.'s Steven Dole and Lockheed's Maxwell Hunter...
...Others: Leo Cherne, Research Institute of America; Harry D. Gideonse, New School for Social Research; William W. Lockwood, Princeton; Richard L. Park, University of Michigan; Guy J. Pauker, Rand Corp.; Lucian Pye, M.I.T.; I. Milton Sacks, Brandeis University; Paul Seabury, University of California; Fred von der Mehden, University of Wisconsin; and Robert E. Ward, University of Michigan...
...make for more uniform testing because most filter and non-filter types could then be smoke-tested to the same length. Since a milligram is only 1/28,000 of an ounce, the varying butt lengths could affect rankings. So, rebutting his own commission's findings, FTC chairman Paul Rand Dixon argued that the tests were of "doubtful" comparative value...
WILLIAM McN. RAND...