Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members often disagree with each other. A black student told me recently that earlier this year the blacks suffered from strong differences within their ranks. In general, younger blacks wanted to take more radical action against the University, and older ones wanted to cool it, to wait and see if the University would come around to their position on the creation of an Afro-American studies program. But despite the tensions, it was a black question and they kept it to themselves. The black community is only the most extreme example of groupism which almost everyone at Harvard experiences...
...COMPUTERS. The company entered the computer field in the mid-1950s and so far has spent hundreds of millions to develop a full family of machines. Partly because of the competition from IBM (see page 63), it is unlikely to turn a profit before 1970 at the earliest. Another costly venture was G.E.'s purchase in 1964 of Machines Bull, a French computer manufacturer. G.E. has pumped well over $100 million into the company, most of whose major computer lines had to be scrapped; Bull has yet to earn a profit for G.E. Some management critics believe that...
...strain in the world's monetary system. Eight hours after Treasury Secretary David Kennedy was sworn in last week, he talked down one source of uneasiness. In a statement approved by President Nixon, he ruled out any change in the official $35-per-oz. price of gold. "We see no need or reason for such action," he said...
...Brothers Cohn-Bendit see it, the explosion of 1968-with its barricades, its bloody street battles, its crippling general strike-came within a hairbreadth of toppling Charles de Gaulle. "From the 27th to the 30th of May," they insist, "nobody had any power in France. The government was breaking up, De Gaulle and Pompidou were isolated. The police, intimidated by the size of the strike and exhausted by two weeks of fighting in the streets, were incapable of maintaining public order. The army was out of sight; conscripts could not have been used for a cause in which...
...other side of the lines, why were the Allies so slow to spot the buildup? How did 500 trainloads of supplies cross the Rhine undetected? Answer: intelligence officers, like everybody else, tend to see only what they are looking for, and they were convinced that the Germans were on the defensive for good...