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Failure of Nerve. As an antidote, the report suggested the cultivation of specialists and men trained in the management of people, paper and budgets. In this respect, the report is a decade-later application of Robert McNamara's Whiz Kids techniques to the nation's oldest executive agency. In the past, the Foreign Service has prided itself on producing diplomat-generalists, but the complexity of foreign relations in recent years has shown the need for developing diplomats with more concentrated skills in technical areas...
Europe's oldest indigenous tribe, with a trilling language whose roots have not yet been discovered, the Basques fought off the Romans, the Visigoths and the Moors. They lost little love on Spain's Castilian kings. Though a threadbare Basque government-in-exile hangs on in Paris, most Basque nationalists are moderates who have long since abandoned their 19th century dreams of secession and now hope instead for a degree of autonomy. Under Franco, who has not forgotten how the Basques fought him during the 1936-39 civil war, that hope is vain...
...least the facade is possible. Her husband's letters counsel the children to study and not watch too much television; they inquire whether she has got braces for Mike, the oldest at 13. Mrs. Grumpier has other problems in a manless house. "I tried to sell a car and I couldn't find?what do you call it ?the title." And she has a problem with Mike that her dentist cannot handle, nor can she. The blond, rangy boy was switched from offense to linebacker on the defensive platoon for his junior high school football team and came home...
...AMERICA," remarked Gertrude Stein, "is the oldest nation in the world." America's architecture, sadly, bears out the comment. In any American city, amidst the incoherence of unrelated structures our inability to appeal to any potential modern sensibility is conspicuous. The descendants of immigrants and pioneers continue to raise disfunctional monuments in archaic styles...
...oldest of the 23 and, with a 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, the most distinguished from within the Harvard community, Purcell must be considered the Corporation's "Pope John" on the list. Because of the 66-year-old mandatory requirement age, he would be an interregnum president if chosen; both academically and politically, he is highly respected by the entire spectrum of the Faculty and most students who have taken his course...