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...facilities in effect, primarily to become a more efficient tool for killing Vietnamese peasants is at best debatable, and perhaps ludicrous. Furthermore, the existence of a compact between Harvard and the Federal government to further the University's expansion appears dubious in view of the fact that, since the advent of the Johnson Administration, the Federal government has been giving proportionately less money to top-rank universities such as Harvard and M.I.T. and more to state universities and junior colleges--to create what Johnson called "regional centers of excellence," rather than only a few major centers of academic work...
...Sheik. Prominent among Bouvier spenders was John Vernou Bouvier III, whose advent in the Bouvier story signals the start of those sections of the book that have induced most of its buyers to shell out their $10. Jack Bouvier was the father of two daughters, Jacqueline...
...main reason that Communism is breaking up, writes Djilas, is the advent of a new New Class. It consists of specialists-technicians, managers, teachers, artists-who are pressing for a freer, more flexible society. In time, Djilas is convinced, they will usher in a democratic society hardly distinguishable from existing Western versions, with much the same pluralism, mixed economy and individual freedoms. The Communist bureaucracy cannot suppress this knowledgeable new class because the regime's economy more and more depends on it-just as, in Western countries, politics and the economy depend more and more on professional knowledge...
...people who suffer because of inadequate distribution of medical care, the poor and the black have always suffered the most. Before the government invented its patchwork medical insurance plans, the poor simply couldn't pay for decent care. And now, even with the advent of Medicare and Medicaid, coverage is usually not complete enough to meet basic medical needs...
...advent of nuclear weapons has also minimized the importance of vast and cumbersome reserve armies, and the accompanying huge corps of reserve officers. At the same time, America's lonely policy of worldwide containment of Communism requires the maintenance of large active forces which can be quickly deployed in any part of the globe...