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...inform the public about official deception in the evolution of U.S. policy in Viet Nam (see BOOKS). The Government first challenged the press's right to publish copies of the papers received from Ellsberg, but the Supreme Court rejected that challenge. The Government then charged that Ellsberg and Rand associate Russo collected and disclosed secret material in violation of statutes on conspiracy, theft and espionage...
...experiment, covering half a square mile near the White House, was devised by the Sperry Rand Corp. under a $4.1 million contract with the Federal Highway Administration. Electronic sensors, embedded in the streets, monitor the flow of vehicles above them. Telephone wires carry the information to a central computer that is programmed to analyze these data immediately, and to send back the appropriate commands to street lights...
Paul Anthony Samuelson, the Nobel Prize winning MIT economist, received the third Doctor of Laws. A member of the Rand Corporation and a consultant to the Federal Reserve Board, he was a consultant to the National Resources Planning Board during World War II and a member of the War Production Board in 1945. Age 57, he holds an A.B. from Chicago University and a Ph.D. from Harvard...
...outlays of larger amounts of time and-or money in order to reach ends determined not by cheapness but by results. Methodology, studying the principles of procedure, and the exploration of different theories--both political and scientific--are possible only within the large rich think tanks such as RAND and on the whole account for only 2 to 3 per cent of the work...
...necessary to unite both the clients and the researchers in analysis and implementation. The Center for Community Economic Development, a think tank based in Cambridge, already fuses its staff with the people of the communities it serves. Also, the New York City RAND Institute attempts to draw its municipal clients into the research and to allow the researcher to take part in the implementation of the research. The result is an improved recommendation from the think tank that evolves with the client, insuring a better likelihood of action from a client who is wiser and more competent from his participation...