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...Faculty viewpoint on this is divided. Menzel, ultimately responsible for the condition of the instruments, contends that observing is not especially valuable for undergraduates and that any extensive observing program conflicts with studies. He also questions the safety to the instruments if students not "especially advanced" use them. Menzel feels, however, that there is no essential conflict between the research and teaching aspects of the Observatory's work, and points to the success of graduate programs...
...laude at 17. It was then the fashion in polite strata of most European society to lock sex in a darkened bedroom and pretend that otherwise (except for haut-monde libertines and the licentious "lower classes") it did not exist. For whatever inner need, the adolescent Freud accepted this viewpoint, once even warned his sister Anna off Balzac and Dumas...
...management consultants have been employed repeatedly by some of the largest U.S. corporations, such as American Cyanamid. General Foods and RCA, and obviously have earned their fees. One of their chief values is that they bring in a completely fresh viewpoint. They may not be smarter than the men they advise, but they offer a corporation the analytical eye of a competent outsider who is not entangled in the company's day-to-day operations and politics. Sometimes the consultant can apply know-how gained in a similar situation with another client. Most often, says Robert Heller & Associates, they...
...Physical Viewpoint. From Miami, Kefauver headed west to Omaha to fulfill a precampaign promise to deliver a non-political speech to the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs. As befitted a man with high hope of capturing Nebraska's twelve Democratic Convention votes, he improved the shining hour by showing up for a luncheon meeting of the local Democratic Central Committee. Afterward he boarded a plane for New Jersey, where five more grueling days of campaigning awaited...
...early phases of the cycle, when the new forces which created the new alignment are most dynamic and the public response most clear-cut, the electoral majorities of the dominant party may be overwhelming. Although long voting habits may keep many who share the new majority viewpoint within the fold of the opposition party, in the beginning that party is commonly the haven for those who reject the new consensus. The leaders of this group secure control of the party machinery and position it vigorously against the views widely accepted by the majority of citizens, thus consigning...