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...foresight as a fund-raiser. Congratulations are also due the Foundation, which directed its generosity with wisdom. Harvard, though widely respected for its faculty in most of the social sciences, has always been weak in "area studies," particularly in African and Latin American affairs; the Ford money will greatly strengthen these studies...
...Ford Foundation announced today a $12.5-million grant to Harvard to strengthen the University's program in international affairs. The grant is the largest single gift in Harvard's history...
...strengthen further Harvard's international studies, President Pusey has announced that he will chair a University-wide committee of senior Faculty members. The group will review all present international research programs...
...their equipment-a total payload of 250,000 Ibs. It should be operational by 1969, said McNamara, and plans call for ordering 58 of them at an eventual cost of $1 billion. Concluded he: "This will greatly increase our mobility, greatly reduce our reaction time and thereby greatly strengthen our capability to meet crises wherever and whenever they may occur...
Wilson and Johnson agreed that the main purpose of MLF, whatever its ultimate form, was to stem nuclear proliferation. Explained Wilson: "The main emphasis has been on our determination to strengthen and unify the joint nuclear responsibilities of our partners and ourselves in such a way as to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons." Without MLF, this reasoning goes, West Germany might eventually demand its own nuclear force; De Gaulle's incipient force de frappe is enough of a NATO headache...