Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SECRETARY McNamara has lulled most of the press to sleep with chants of "cost effectiveness" and "buying at the lowest sound price," but behind this jargon lurks a behemoth of waste. Senator William Proxmire, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, placed the figure at "maybe billions and billions" of dollars following testimony last May by officials of the General Accounting Office...
...already been criticized as a "black man's war" and twice as many Negroes as whites have died in combat. Realizing that criticism was sure to accompany a plan that would draft a greater proportion of Negroes, the President decided that retaining oldest first was the most politically sound move. Graduate students have already been attacked for their privileged deferred status, and he realized that drafting them was least likely to provoke widespread criticism outside the academic community. So far he has been right...
Observers of McCarthy's Minnesota campaigns say that his timing in those contests--he has won seven out of seven, including two against favored Republican incumbents--has been perfect. Indeed the increased pace and tougher sound of McCarthy's campaign over the past three weeks in New Hampshire has left many reporters wondering if he just might do well in the Granite State after...
Winthrop House will hold its Cherry Smash Mixer from 8-12 p.m. tonight in the Dining Hall. Bursar's cards are required. Sound by The Rock Formation...
...resolution on the report and added, "The decisions are mainly budgetary and will have to be made by Dean Ford." Ford has said that the CEP has to judge only whether the recommendations, prepared by Frederick C. Mosteller, professor of Mathematical Statistics, and seven other Faculty members, are educationally sound...