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...reporter for the paper needs a hearing aid," said Adlow. "I use those words only in select conversations...
...Pentagon was so unaccustomed to common effort that early in his career McNamara was called on to personally, preside over an assay of butchers' smocks to select one design for all services. He soon established the Defense Supply Agency for such activities. He also created the Defense Intelligence Agency to coordinate previously scattered intelligence efforts, and centralized other key functions. Under McNamara, the concept and practice of systems analysis were introduced. The goal: scientific evaluation of major weapons developments and other expensive projects to determine as objectively as possible the return for a proposed investment compared with that...
...Radcliffe Government Association decided yesterday that next week's run-off referendum to select a new governing body will be binding even if less than 50 per cent of Radcliffe votes...
...Committee on House Assignments has decided to keep the House selection system it devised last year, and thus resolve years of debate. It will select 400 to 500 members of the freshman class who represent the "strength of the class" based on their accomplishments here so far. They will be distributed by the committee among the eight residence Houses to make sure that each House gets an even share of athletes, musicians, and actors. The committee will, of course, try to follow the preferences of the Masters and the students in this first group. The rest of the class, presumably...
...will answer with a resounding silence," said Harris, coordinator for the Dudley group. "We see no reason to make the statement the Board needs to justify the arbitrary distinctions used in deciding who to place on probation; their so-called evidence is only an excuse to select a manageable number to put on pro," he said...