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...reason to do so. Mr. Eisenhower used the committee system rather erratically: his study groups varied from the Gaither Committee on Defense, whose controversial report he classified, to the Draper Committee on foreign aid, whose superbly thorough report he ignored, to the transcendental Committee on National Goals, whose virtually worthless report he applauded. The Clay Report has presented still another style of investigation, and still another sort of reception from those who sired...
...void," wrote the News's Ben Gross, "but both were pale shadows of the real thing." Said the Journal's acerbic Jack O'Brian: "They had it all to themselves . . . and they blew it." To the Telegram's Richard Starnes. all the substitutes were "practically worthless to a hungry...
...open till midnight, but only till 11:00. The important point, though, is that Radcliffe Library--and I presume this is true to a lesser degree of Lamont--is a very small library, not at all equipped for any kind of specialized research. This means it is virtually worthless for a graduate student writing a thesis, and indeed for anyone who has to do much work in periodicals (this includes most graduate students). I would also imagine that the reading for a very large number of undergraduate theses and special projects would have to be done mostly in Widener...
Birrell then persuaded the board to permit the transfer of many of United Dye's assets to worthless insurance companies that he controlled. After he had managed to siphon off some $2,000,000 of the company's assets, Birrell sold his 38,500 United Dye shares. They went to another swindler. Alexander Guterma, who installed himself as chairman and Dardi as president...
However, Harris warned in a letter to the Washington Post that Congressional "nibbling" may make the program worthless. "The longer the tax cut is postponed," Harris said, "and the longer the period over which the reduction is spread, the less effective the policy will...