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...Committee is impressed not only with the need for independent judgment in the recruitment of faculty but also with the need for increased vigor and expedition in the operation of recruitment procedures. In particular, greater enterprise and initiative are required from departments and their chairmen. The day is past, if it ever existed, in which an invitation to Harvard was all that was required to bring a faculty member from another leading university. The growing number of scholars, specialties, universities, and research centers creates the need for widespread and systematic search for candidates for appointment...
Scope & Symptoms. Foreign observers of U.S. urban riots are frequently stunned at the vigor of the American poor. How, they wonder, can a looter claim to be hungry and oppressed, yet walk off with a color-television set as easily as if he were hefting a loaf of bread...
...Down. Few ever did. A man of both vision and vigor who honed his boyhood interest in aviation as a Navy pilot during World War I, New Jersey-born Trippe ruled his airline with a firm hand. After establishing Pan Am as the first carrier to offer regular international service, he engaged in what amounted to a one-man diplomatic mission in order to negotiate landing rights in South America. In the 1930s, with his line's South American routes already well established, he became the first to introduce scheduled airline service across both the Pacific and the Atlantic...
...cold that day, so cold that the air was noisy and burned with excitement. Perhaps it was speaking of the teach-in; perhaps you only thought so, but you were excited and felt movement and a strange kind of vigor, uncharacteristic of most winters...
...year career in Government service. President Kennedy once remarked that the lean, lantern-jawed New York millionaire had held "as many important jobs as any man in our history," with the possible exception of John Quincy Adams.* At 76, Harriman is hard of hearing, but his vigor of mind and body remain unimpaired-and perhaps a touch of deafness might even help in talks that are likely to drone on for months, perhaps years...