Word: tactfulness
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Anthony G. Oettinger, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, and a director of Tact, foresaw large possibilities for the project once it gets out of the experimental stage. He said that Harvard will lease a giant IBM 360 computer next June that will be used solely in Project Tact...
...Project Tact (Technological Aids to Creative Thought) will also be a valuable teaching aid in many lecture courses in a year or two, Adrian Ruyle, staff mathamatician, said yesterday...
...defined what victory in South Vietnam really means. If the President is bound to play a game of persistence with the Viet Cong -- a "we can fight longer than you can" policy -- he may find that the enemy is simply better prepared for this sort of tact than the United States. After all, the Viet Cong has been fighting, in one form of another, for almost two decades...
...Boss. Nowadays this is usually done with tact-but originally it took toughness as well. Shortly after he took over in 1964, Barzel called a caucus of the party's 240 deputies and announced that if one more squabble erupted in public, the party could consider his resignation. "Everybody looked at Konrad Adenauer and the other older leaders, waiting for challenge," recalls one deputy. "It did not come. Young Barzel walked out of there the boss...
Even for Indonesia, things were getting a bit out of hand. The generals decided that the time for tact was past. Machine-gun-toting troops crossed the lush lawn of the Merdeka to arrest Su bandrio and 14 leftist Ministers, reportedly flung them into the grimy guardhouse at Djakarta garrison headquarters. Then Suharto announced over the Djakarta radio, which he had also seized, that he had done it "in the name of President Sukarno," to prevent the Ministers "from becoming the victims of the Indonesian people, who are becoming restless and uncontrolled...