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...also because the Gen Ed course tries to introduce a student to an understanding and appreciation of a broad field of knowledge that it should be required. Gen Ed must look to the years after college when a man is a specialist, professional, or technocrat. It must train him for another role--nothing less than a citizen whose quality of mind can comprehend a pluralistic society...
...lesson of the Doty Report and the subsequent squabbling in the Faculty is that the Faculty is incompetent to deal with questions of education. In an era in which the challenge facing education in a democracy is to combine the political role of citizen with the social role of technocrat, a body committed to narrowness by habit and inclination should be the last source from which help is sought. The Faculty as individuals have long since abandoned a real commitment to the broad concept of the educated...
ALEKSEI KOSYGIN, 58, was only 13 when the Bolsheviks seized power, and is one of the best examples of the new breed of Soviet technocrat who relies less on Communist dogma than on practical results. A wartime premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, Kosygin entered the inner Kremlin circle under Stalin, lost the dictator's favor in 1948 and remained relatively unimportant until 1959, when Khrushchev turned Kosygin's experience as an economic planner to use as the head of the State Planning Commission. During a tour of France two years ago, Khrushchev openly referred to his traveling...
...Reuter went to work there, and rose from compressor salesman to head engineer. For the past two decades, he and Reuter have worked together 14 hours a day, automating Demag's production lines, planning new products, and maneuvering salesmen around the globe to outbid competitors. A slow-spoken technocrat, Miller is alleged by his plaintive subordinates to start his work day "shortly after midnight...
...brought it off was the brilliant young (37) technocrat Finance Minister Félix Gaillard, who made it clear that either France would live closer to its means or that he would quit. He first demanded that his fellow ministers slash 600 billion francs ($1.7 billion) from their next year's spending plans (TIME, Aug. 12). The Defense Minister spoke reassuringly of sticking "to my best estimates." Retorted Gaillard: "I cannot accept any estimates, I need guarantees." Sighed the Labor Minister: "He must settle-this crisis at any cost. If we allow Félix Gaillard to walk...