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Hall said that Rouillard is "good at what I felt was B&G's big weakness, communication with the Harvard community." He added, "B&G had heretofore been an autocratic organization, it was too autonomous."

Author: By Peter W. Broer, | Title: Rouillard Becomes Official B&G Head | 7/16/1974 | See Source »

That outcome was at least in part shaped by the specter of Watergate. His domestic burden placed Nixon in a dilemma. He badly wanted some kind of major arms-limitations agreement in the area of strategic offensive missiles, not only for its own sake but also to bolster his image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Summit III: Playing It As It Lays in Moscow | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

Her quietness and humility were not to be mistaken for weakness or passivity. Indeed, her presence was a positive force, which had great and obvious impact on Martin Luther King Jr. She saw the vanity and emptiness of false pride and puffery. She knew that movement and progress did not...

Author: By Walter J. Leonard, | Title: Mrs. King | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

The resolution acknowledges the strength of Saigon's American-equipped 1.1 million-man army. It also discusses weakness and instability in the Thieu government and refers to signs of a "serious crisis" in Saigon. With only a minimum of hyperbole, it talks of such chronic problems as "less rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Strategy for a Long Haul | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

Because the book also takes up the authors' beliefs about how so many historians misread the past-through misuse of figures, inadequate training in economics and statistics, reliance on isolated eyewitness accounts and subjective "impressions"-it offers a fascinating insight into how historians work, and how living political attitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Massa's in de Cold, Cold Computer | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

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