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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolling the reformer, then, is not unreconcilable with Bolling the former establishment man. The main element of reform is a strengthening of the leadership. But there is no extensive analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the proposal, or its basis. On the procedural level, such a proposal would tend toward a party alignment on the order of rule - by - majority - of - a - majority (i.e. decisions of the party caucus), approaching the British system, which became quite popular among political scientists in the late forties. Such a view raises interesting questions about what kind of a legislature is most representative...

Author: By Thomas C. Horne, | Title: A Congressman on Congressional Reform | 5/20/1965 | See Source »

...Electrical Union World, the autoworkers' UAW Solidarity, the ladies' garment workers' Justice, the clothing workers' Advance-carry lengthy analyses of legislation before Congress and think pieces on such top ics as automation and narcotics. They are almost all unabashedly Democratic in their politics, and they tend to embark simultaneously on the same liberal campaigns: to abolish right-to-work laws, for instance, or to ban lie-detector tests from employment procedure. But the labor press no longer paints issues entirely in black and white, says Gordon Cole, editor of the Machinist (circ. 868,000) who once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Off the Barricades | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...same time, there are definite advantages in a joint organization. The two universities have different strengths, and working together they tend to complement each other. More important, because of the Joint Center, Harvard and M.I.T. are not directly competing for graduate students and faculty in these areas...

Author: By Mary L. Wissler, | Title: Building Cities, Bridging Gaps | 5/12/1965 | See Source »

...usually differentiated from the surface of the canvas by the line enclosing the shape. A black line or a black blotch on a white surface creates the illusion of "relief," just as surely as a seated figure seems separate from the picture plane. The painters of the exhibit tend to reject relief and explicit bounding lines in favor of a more homogeneous surface area. Paint is exploited for its own abstract properties. The colored surfaces imply nothing but colored surfaces, demanding the viewer's interest solely in the value of their interrelationship...

Author: By Robert E. Abrams, | Title: 3 Modern American Painters | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

M.I.T.'s department is second, although it ranks first for "effectiveness" of its over-all graduate program, the survey says. Chicago and Yale are next. Many mathematically-inclined students tend to choose M.I.T. or Yale over Harvard because of the University's bias towards practically, Business Week explains...

Author: By Carol E. Fredlund, | Title: Article in 'Business Week' Describes Economics Department as U.S.' Best | 4/29/1965 | See Source »

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