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...Constitution, some granted by tradition, some arrogated by the man in office. A President is at once head of state and leader of his party, Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and administrator of a vast bureaucracy, leading legislator and top diplomat, educator and economist, symbol and sage, ribbon cutter and fence mender. Because of his role in shaping legislation affecting the cities, in recent years he has also become "the Chief Executive of Metropolis," as Williams Political Scientist James Mac-Gregor Burns puts...
...proposal was put forward by a blue-ribbon advisory panel headed by Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy and including former U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel...
...which cost $2.8 million to research and perfect, machines bombard the molten glass with microscopic metallic particles as it passes across the tin bath. With an investment of only $36,000, glassmakers can add the tinting process to a regular plant, color as much as desired bt the continuous ribbon of glass. Says Sir Harry Pilkington, 62, chairman of the 141-year-old family-owned company: "We already knew that our float process leads the world in the manufacture of this type of glass. As a result of our new discovery, we hope demand will increase enormously...
...finger. Nor is their appeal only to the young. Rose Kennedy, Carol Channing, Oveta Gulp Hobby and Mary Lasker all sport them. Lord Snowdon owns several, including a big black one to harmonize with his evening clothes. The Beatles' Ringo Starr threads his on a velvet ribbon and drapes it around his neck...
Whatever the ranking, Arbuckle has indeed worked a renaissance at the Palo Alto, Calif., campus. He set up a blue-ribbon council of outside advisers (among them: Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John W. Gardner), snared hefty foundation grants, nearly tripled the faculty (to 73), increased enrollment by more than 50% (625). He also broadened the curriculum to include ethics seminars and other subjects, built a vigorous research program from scratch. And what was once a California rich man's school also took on an international scope. Out of a conviction that Stanford "has an obligation to help management...