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Robert E. Lee, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, said yesterday that the School would not compete with existing Universities, although it would undertake research projects. It would replace the State Department's Foreign Service Institute, but would not supplant West Point or the other service academies...
...than to obtain information, it is still fair to say that the Administration has failed so far to point out convincingly that the reasons for foreign assistance to one country or another are highly specific. Principally the economic aid program wants to develop technocratic and fairly apolitical classes to supplant, gradually and delicately, the frequently irresponsible politicians and stubborn elites that now control poor countries. At the same time it must use the existing governing classes to stabilize economies to make savings and investment possible...
...million people) set up a task force under Blue Cross's hard-driving new president, Walter J. McNerney, 36. Said McNerney, a specialist in medical economics fresh from the University of Michigan faculty: "We feel the Government should supplement and strengthen our existing hospital programs rather than supplant them...
Seasonable Start. In many places, today's Christmases are still rich with those old homey flavors-though White Christmas threatens to supplant Silent Night, Christmas trees glitter with baubles, bangles and winking lights that Grandfather never dreamed of, and, for some, dinners at Howard Johnson's have replaced the huge old feasts...
...read Stookey's article, however, or Miss Gale's, or Krupnick's, you might begin to feel that the University can, in time, surmount these problems. For Stookey's article indicates the sort of long-range planning that can supplant the stop-gap measures popular at present; Krupnick's proposes a change in the administration of courses that could provide the undergraduate with greater insight into (and interest in) the process of education; and Miss Gale's shows that an administration can go a long way toward creating the essential "atmosphere of expectation...