Word: rand
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...head of Systems Analysis, Enthoven (Smith served as his aide) was charged with supplying much of the necessary objectivity. With two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and economics degrees from Stanford and M.I.T., plus a four-year Rand Corp. stint as background. Enthoven at age 30 became the prototype McNamara Whiz Kid when the new secretary began building S.A. into a powerful administrative tool. Its basic mission: to estimate the required quantity and performance of forces and weapons in relation to their mission and costs...
...rise of the libertarians can be traced mainly to the publication of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged in 1958. Buckley had repeatedly vilified the Randist movement for its orthodoxy in his National Review, but it was sufficiently large and committed to be worth courting. Besides, the "Objectivists," as they called themselves, were too independent-and a Buckley-dominated political coalition would tend to bring them into the conservative fold. In 1960, at the Buckley estate in Sharon, Connecticut, the fledgling Young Americans for Freedom adopted planks designed to bring the Objectivists and other libertarians into their organization...
...being prepared for Goldwater's nomination by the Republican Party in 1964, Buckley, F. Clifton White, and William Rusher (publisher of National Review ) had effective control of a youthful right-wing coalition whose members ranged from rabid anti-Communists to near-anarchists. All enthusiastically supported Goldwater-even Ayn Rand, supremely contemptuous of politics, said that he was the first presidential candidate since Thomas Jefferson that she respected...
...statement released last night, Bowle revealed that Paul H. Nitze, a member of the U. S. team at the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks, chaired yesterday's annual meeting. Former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Henry S. Rowen, president of the Rand Corporation, were among those who attended...
...includes such national figures as Lincoln Gordon, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1961 to 1966; Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense and the current President of the World Bank; Charles W. Yost, former Ambassador to Laos and the United Nations; and Harry S. Rowen, president of the Rand Corporation...