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...many professors are going into business that students frequently confront their teachers when they go asking for a job. With U.S. business hungering for specialized talent, such top scholars as New York University Economist Marcus Nadler earn up to $300 a day as consultants to management. University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield is also chairman of Smith-Corona Marchant and a director of Studebaker and Avco Corp. The hub of this extracurricular activity is Boston, where some 1,000 space-age companies have grown up since World War II, most of them started there to exploit readily available brain...
...groups is probably at bottom a difference in temperament." He adds that the emotional origins of contemporary radical thought "lie in a profound dislike for what the critics regard as a suffocating consensus blanketing American life--a consensus which most of them trace to a refusal to confront the implications of nuclear...
...France does at least approach its problems in a meaningful way. If the book fails to answer all the questions about France that are current today, at least it asks them, and gives the background necessary for a clear and intelligent understanding of the issues, national and domestic, that confront the French nation today. Well planned, thoroughly critical, In Search of France is the brilliant product of a brilliant group of minds
...wait and formally negotiate a long range agreement with Britain might have forced Kennedy and McNamara to go through the same embarrassing and time-consuming performance that they had undergone the year before. The quickest course was to confront the British government with an unchangeable situation, let Macmillan work himself into a desperate frame of mind, and then present him with Polaris missiles, a gift he accepted with practically no delay...
...Bradford practiced corporation law in Manhattan for nine years before joining the Times as assistant to the publisher in 1947. There he rose steadily through the executive ranks. His position on the Times, plus his law background, made him the Publishers Association's logical choice to confront the printers' truculence...