Word: rostow
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...approach to underdevelopment, because it identified strategic relationships within the economy, as between savings and investment and between the national budget and the level of economic activity. Another common experience was war-time work in such agencies as the Office of Strategic Services (Edward S. Mason, Walt Rostow, Carl Kaysen) or the Strategic Bombing Survey (J.K. Galbraith), where economists, whether in order to pick out bombing targets or to assess the significance of the damage wrought, had to think in terms of leverage points within the economic system. Both depression and war thus forced attention on the dynamics of whole...
Unpaid Faculty. Such intellectuals as Harvard's President Emeritus James B. Conant, Historians Henry Steele Commager and Richard Hofstadter, Anthropologist Margaret Mead and Economist Walt W. Rostow have voluntarily served on the Salzburg faculty without pay. Seminar topics are U.S. art and culture, the political, economic and social structure, education, and-every year without fail-"American Law and Legal Institutions...
...threat to the West, and 2) by its firm stand in Southeast Asia, the U.S. is inviting Russian retaliation. Both premises are debatable at best; together, they are not an argument but a plea for passivity. The danger of such wishful thinking, as the State Department's Walt Rostow has warned, is that "out of a false sense that the cold war is coming to an end, out of boredom or domestic preoccupations, or a desire to get on with purely national objectives, we will open up new opportunities for the Communists to advance...
...Manning has been what Rostow calls "a phenomenon" ever since he hurtled out of Fall River (Mass.) High School in 1940 with a scholarship and the intellectual agility to race through Yale at the head of his class only two years later. At 19, having learned Japanese with no visible effort, he became one of the Army cryptanalysts who helped to break the Japanese naval code, which cleared the decks for U.S. victory at Midway. When he graduated from Yale Law School in 1949, he was again No. 1 in his class and editor in chief of the Law Journal...
...Trade Extension Act, toiled for NATO on the problems of a multinational nuclear force and hit the banquet trail as the Yale law faculty's most zealous rustler of alumni cash. Through it all, Manning stayed as cool and witty as ever. "He never bristles or sulks," says Rostow, "and he needs no soothing...