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With the change in the corporation's stature, points out Eugene V. Rostow, dean of the Yale Law School, the public image of it has drastically changed. Once, the corporation was symbolized by "a grim and energetic tyrant, single-mindedly driving his staff on to new feats of money-making." Today it proudly boasts of its duties to society, gives out scholarships to deserving students, sparks fund drives, joins in community affairs...
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...