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...Italian, as a longtime war correspondent in Viet Nam, as the author of a book on the Viet Nam War, I have to answer the sort of judgment made by the unnamed Rand Corp. analyst who said that the South could hold out against the North Vietnamese "... unless the North Vietnamese are all Prussians and the South Vietnamese are all Italians...
Dartmouth's only talent lies at midfield, where the Indians boast three veteran starters--Rand Alexander, co-captain Bob Bassett and Al Freihofer. Bassett is the third-leading scorer with 12 goals and 8 assists...
...fact, Harvard voted against or abstained on every other proxy resolution. It rejected an AT&T resolution similar to the Ford one which called for a broadened board. It voted against two other GM resolutions. The University sided with management against proposals to create committees within Honeywell, Sperry Rand and ITT to supervise the transition from warrelated production to peacetime manufacture...
...bewildering array of studies of these Johnson-era programs has failed to prove that compensatory education is the answer to poor schooling. Rand Corp. researchers found that for every study identifying a school program that worked, another equally good study concluded that the same educational practice was ineffective. Nixon acknowledged the confusion two years ago when he told Congress that "the best available evidence indicates that most of the compensatory education programs have not measurably helped poor children catch up." No research since then warrants any other conclusion; the only development since 1970 has been the emergence of busing...
...motivation from a strong parent. Her father, a buccaneering oil wildcatter from Texas, taught her that, as she recalls, "being an entrepreneur is the only way to fly." He gave her a man's name and directed her to a career. Shortly out of college, she married a Rand Corp. mathematician. In the mid-1960s, the Babcocks saw that the computer software market was blossoming, and they started a service that allowed companies to share a highspeed computer by transmitting data over telephone lines. While Michael Babcock plotted the financing and marketing strategy, her husband directed the computer technology...