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...basic feature of the defense industry struck the WARP researchers from the beginning. They found that defense business takes place in a "unique environment of uncertainty." A high proportion of the effort of defense industries involves unpredictable research and development activities...
From 1958 to 1961, the WARP studied 12 major defense contracts including the Atlas, Jupiter, and Polaris missiles, the F4H intercepter, and the Nike Zeus anti-missile. Their case studies covered more than 1200 draft pages...
Researchers for the group received access to classified materials of the Defense Department on a "need to know" basis. In return, they agreed to submit all publications by the WARP to the Security Office of the Secretary of Defense for clearance...
...insights of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s A Thousand Days. Nevertheless, De Toledano's R.F.K. owes plenty to all three-along with dozens of other filchable Bobby notes and quotes from a multitude of other public-library-shelf sources. Predictaoly, the author has let his right-wing bias warp the good and winnow only the bad from the reams of words that have already been written about Bobby; he has created an absurdly baleful, paste-pot portrait of Kennedy that is as amateurishly written as it is inaccurately reported...
...coed Emory, insists that "at Scott, when you got out into the world you went berserk," while at Emory, "I act more ladylike-even my language is better." At Christian College, a women's school in Columbia, Mo., Student Susan Hoffman declares: "Girls' schools retard, stunt and warp your social growth and maturity. Every time you see a boy, it takes about a week to recover." Why then do students choose an all-girl or an all-male school? Answers one Vassar junior: "I knew Vassar was all-girl when I came here. But I was stupid when...