Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of the speakers elicited much enthusiasm from the audience; perhaps none intended to. Charles Coryell, professor of Chemistry at M.I.T., and Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan seemed to provoke the audience most. But Coryell's defense of Linus Pauling was, in context, peripheral to the main topic, and Williams' six-point program for "what you can do" turned out to be largely a program for what a Democratic Administration might do. Save for his emphasis on "arms to parley," though, Williams' speech seemed to encourage the audience, to show them that there are important politicians on their side...
John N. Plank, head tutor in Government, and Eric Gustafson, instructor in Economics, will merge their Adams House tutorials into a single group studying the topic of "imperialism...
...complete agreement with the Indo-Pakistani press on the topic. Our students trained abroad can get brides of much better caliber and higher polish back home...
...chosen to play down group identification and to stress "personal commitment to act." Action does not mean running around with meaningless petitions or waving a sign demanding peace in our time. It means a host of more demanding tasks. Among them is research--and what is a more exciting topic than steps toward disarmament...
...Count. Last week a newly published volume of Strumilin's collected essays arrived in Washington. In one hitherto unprinted essay on the technical topic of "Investment Effectiveness." Strumilin admits what Western experts have long suspected: official Soviet figures on industrial growth are unreliable because of "double counting." That is to say, in computing overall industrial output the Russians count the value of sheet steel, for instance, over and over-first when it emerges from the steel mill and again in computing the total value of the truck or other product made from it. "Growth of gross output purposely exaggerates...