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...mail poll by Cambridge's congressman showed that city residents favor U. S. withdrawal from Vietnam by December and legalization of marijuana...
Since World War II, the social sciences in the U. S. have been increasingly integrated into a growing institutional complex of universities, major foundations, private research institutes, and the government. This system is represented at Harvard by institutions such as the Center for International Affairs, and by men such as Robert Bowie, Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy, and Huntington. Such forms permit the utilization of the resources of academic communities for long-range policy planning. Many would also refuse employment with centers such as the Stanford Research Institute, Institute for Defense Analysis, and the Rand Corporation. Fewer would refuse to cooperate...
Thus, access to the broader skills and knowledge of the U. S. academic community is required. Foundations, as sources of economic surplus generated out of specific enterprises and applied to the stabilization of the system as a whole, are the mechanism through which academia is most thoroughly adapted to the purposes of those who control policy. The Ford Foundation, for example, is the main source of support for 56 per cent of the approximately 200 university foreign affairs centers in the U. S. It has been a major source for centers at Columbia. Chicago, Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell, Harvard, Indiana...
Samuel Huntington can in his position as Chairman of the Government Department at Harvard University, prepare papers for the use of the U. S. government in Vietnam. Some professors might oppose this. Few are prepared to move against it, for in the final analysis most are tied by a thousand threads of privilege and ideology to the same forces that Huntington serves. The integration of government, private foundation, and university in such institutions as the CFIA is an important component of the imperial strategies of those who make and control U. S. foreign policy...
...Board of Trustees of Radcliffe College; Louis W. Cabot '43, a Boston industrialist; John J. Iselin '56, vice president of Harper and Row; Donald Kennedy '52, professor and chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University; and Wade H. McCree Jr., a judge at the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Detroit...