Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Industrialist Clarence Randall, chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy. Among his most potent arguments, as Ike summarized it at his press conference: "Trade in itself is the greatest weapon in the hands of a diplomat." Ike's chief economic adviser, Gabriel Hauge, sympathizes with the Randall view. There are also followers of this line of reasoning within the State Department itself; e.g., Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and Deputy Under Secretary Douglas Dillon accept it, at least in theory. CIA Director Allen Dulles, brother of the Secretary of State, is also in favor. Among Allen Dulles...
Purging the Planners. The Development Board has made its share of mistakes. It failed to train enough people to staff the new schools, hospitals, factories. From a political point of view, it was too slow to add what experts call "impact" projects, i.e., works that hungry, impoverished Iraqis can see in front of them, instead of distant dams that take years to build. The board started only last year to build its first 2,500 low-cost housing units in the capital. Nuri confessed to Parliament last fall that the highway-building program had been "a failure," owing to inadequate...
Citation: "In the critical view of informed judgment, he is the foremost labor statesman in the world...
...NOSTALGIA FOR CAMELS, by Christopher Rand (279 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.75), offers still another view of Asia, not panoramic but miniaturist, with the focus on individual Asians. Unpretentious U.S. Journalist Christopher Rand, an old Asia hand, snaps some memorable candids of the famed and humble, ranging from Vinoba Bhave, India's post-Gandhi Gandhi (TIME, May 11, 1953), to Mr. Fu, a Hong Kong opium connoisseur with a palate as refined as that of the most finicky Western vinophile. There is a weatherbeaten Malayan old man of the sea who knows the language of the fish (sharks...
...strongest arguments in favor of increased flexibility for qualified students comes from an area that is intimately concerned with the quality of Harvard education, but is frequently overlooked by that system's planners. Radcliffe's Dean of Instruction, Mrs. Wilma Anderson Kerby-Miller, offered this view...