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...editors, let us avoid propositions, devise programs; it is wiser. And so they do, save for their publication of a few nasty, unnecessarily long swipes at the far right. (A Mr. K. T., for example, tells use that he has "nothing in particular against capitalists" but that unlike Ayn Rand he does not "find them an acceptable substitute for God, and would submit that Miss Rand's compulsion to apotheosize them indicates something about the soundness of her thought." Another column, "Retreat," when it is not offensively chatty, is absurdly serious enough to comment that the right-wing magazine...
filled the New England Mutual last night as Rand Corporation Herman Kahn and Robert Wolff '54, instructor in Philosophy debated whether civil defense the arms race...
Richard A. Rand '62 editor of the Advocate, seemed as disappointed as the rest. "That's awful," he said in dismay. One wasn't sure whether he was speaking of the abortive welcoming demonstration or the ticket sales. Only 250 showed up in Sanders Theater to hear Rexroth Saturday...
Died. Horace Rowan Gaither Jr., 51, lawyer and investment banker who served variously as assistant director of M.I.T.'s wartime Radiation Laboratory, board chairman of the prestigious Rand Corp. and president of the Ford Foundation, a powerful but little known administrator until he took center stage in 1957 with ' his controversial, still secret "Gaither Report," said to warn of perilous deficiencies in U.S. defenses; of lung cancer; in Boston...
Asked about her views of Barry Goldwater, Miss Rand replied, "He appears promising." She approved of his foreign policy, but on domestic issues proclaimed him "a mixed economist...