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...finished fifth in a field of 16, will fo to the national convention pledged to Kennedy if Kennedy wins over two-thirds of the vote in the Eighth District; which includes Cambridge...
...ROLE OF Harberger's approach to economics in causing the repression is, however, a much more serious issue. The field of international development is now in a state of intellectual crisis. One of the reasons is the failure of market economics to solve the economic problems of developing countries. In the '50s and '60s economists were confident they could get the economies of poor countries moving if only their governments would follow a good economist's advice...
ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN, professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, long had faith in "economic development." In 1963, he wrote the highly influential Journeys Toward Progress. In an essay published last year, though, he epitomized contemporary disenchantment with the field, changing Toqueville's famous epigram from "A close tie and necessary relation exist between these two things: freedom and industry," to "A close tie and a necessary relation exist between these two things: torture and industry...
Since the mid-'60s, the society's has been a prosaic; if mildly prosperous, existence. With little turnover in membership, about 200 people constantly work in Belmont, the western headquarters in San Marino, Calif., and in the field. A council whose members include former New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thompson and Bunker Hunt, of the Texas oil family, raised and administer an 58 million budget that has not changed in about five years. The latest major project is something called TRIM, Tax Reform Immediately, an organization of local pamphleteers who rate their congressman by his stands on raising taxes. Far from...
...shooting killed Harvard. Again. The Crimson hit 39 per cent of its field goals, a telling contrast to its 62-per-cent winning performance at Dartmouth earlier this week...