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(When the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted for the second time in January not to discuss the draft, Thomas C. Schelling, Professor of Economics, organized a 14-member group to study the United States military manpower system.
Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, will not leave Harvard next year to become a full-time consultant to the State Department.
"I gradually realized that the Department's organization was too complex to develop a system for programming in one year," Schelling said yesterday. He had received a leave of absence from the University for 1967-68 in order to devise techniques which could make more effective the Government's annual...
Schelling also cited the difficulty of leaving his Government position in the September of an election year. The State Department does not have anyone to take his place. But Schelling will continue to advise the Department while a Faculty member and senior member of the Center for International Affairs.
Although his duties had not yet been clearly defined, Schelling would have analyzed and recommended changes in the State's Department's budgetary process. The Department wanted to find better ways to relate program expenditures to foreign policy objectives.