Word: rostow
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Another warning came from Professor W. W. Rostow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, who advocated "sharply increased public expenditures" for both defense and foreign aid. Russia's superior growth rate and her power-bent use of it, Rostow said, threaten the U.S. on half a dozen fronts, ranging from brush-fire wars to all-out attack, political penetration of underdeveloped areas and "diplomatic blackmail." Worst of all, said Rostow, Russia is creating among neutrals the "psychological image of an ardent competitor closing fast on a front runner who prefers to go down...
...Rostow said that Universities, too, must try to develop people with more unified concepts of the world. He noted that scholastic specialization tends to limit the range of different ways of looking at things...
...Walt R. Rostow, professor of Economic History at M.I.T., and Visiting Lecturer Barbara Ward last night called for the creative and unifying spirit in government that a University education can produce...
Speaking at a Leverett House symposium on "The University and the Public Life," Rostow said that the American tendency towards specialization in study and thought "is at least effective in a situation which requires radical innovation promptly...
Speakers at the symposium on "The University and the Public Life," will be James B. Reston, chief Washington correspondent of the New York Times, and Walt Whitman Rostow, of the Center for International Studies at M.I.T. The discussion, moderated by Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, will be held in the dining hall at 8 p.m. Monday...