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...Dunlop is off to Washington, where it seems likely he will wield enormous power as head of the Cost of Living Council. One imagines the jolly press conferences a year hence in which Dunlop will tell the nation that the price of hamburger has risen only 40 per cent instead of the expected 80. When somebody is wielding enormous power in Washington, it is much easier to detect it than at Harvard, because the folks there are generally either blowing people up or at least robbing them blind...
...soon as Captain Marland W. Townsend Jr. took command in June. Formal and aloof, Townsend replaced Owen Oberg, a popular commanding officer who was given to moving among his crew and not above on occasion going over the side of the ship in a bosun's chair to wield a symbolic chip hammer. "He treated everyone as a minority of one," explained one sailor. Oberg had a way of sympathizing with the crew even when passing out an unpopular order, like the frequent extensions to the ship's tour of duty off the coast of Viet Nam. Recalled...
Harvard hits the opposition with Bruce Johnson and Jim Strathmeyer, both of whom won impressive matches against B.U. at 167 and 177. Cornell and UMass wield power at 158 and should overwhelm the Crimson's Rock Hinkle, who suffered a 6-1 drubbing by B.U. John Keough (167) splits duties with Johnson and tackles UMass...
...Telestrator, for example, transforms freehand drawings into TV images, thus enabling news, weather and sports broadcasters to supplement existing graphics with instant doodles of their own. IBEW is willing to allow freehand lettering by performers with artistic ability but not by amateurs; CBS wants to allow newsmen to wield a Telestrator pen on camera...
...ambitious, some readers will expect it to solve all the problems of the Cold War, to furnish an analytic framework for all Americans Foreign policy after 1945. Clearly, more historical and particularly economic analysis is still needed. But for an understanding of power and the men who wield it, of bureaucracies and the ways they function and malfunction, and of the arrogance of America in the Sixties, Halberstam's book is invaluable. Here at Harvard, home of many of the best and the brightest, it is time to learn that pure knowledge without guidance has no moral value...