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...pressures and problems of the world create technological challenges, there need be no concern about America's sticking it out. Nor is there any reason to think that Americans cannot face the psychological challenge of danger, disappointment and hostility. Says the State Department's Walt Rostow: "We can out-patience anybody if we want to." But in order to do so, the U.S. must see a goal to its patience, not simply a goal in a specific situation like Viet Nam but an overall purpose. In short, it will need answers not only to the pragmatic "how" questions...
...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...
...this came the argument that the true role of foreign aid was neither military nor technical assistance but the organized promotion of national development. Millikan and Rostow made an early statement of this viewpoint in a book of 1957, A Proposal -- Key to a More Ef- fective Foreign Policy; and Rostow gave the idea its historical rationale three years later in The Stages of Economic Development. The Charles River analysis made several contributions of great significance. First of all, it offered the aid program what it had long lacked -- specific criteria for assistance. The goal, the Charles River economists said...
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...