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...foundation stone of U.S. foreign policy. In a complex and changing world, he argues, it is not enough to think about problems and challenges as they arise. "We are going to have to aim at the future," he says, "if we expect to come on target in the present. Otherwise, our problems fly by and we just knock off a few tail feathers...
...prominent University official hinted recently that Bundy was being considered for Deputy Undersecretary of State for Administration, a post now held by Loy Henderson. Since distribution of positions has not yet been made, Bundy deemed the rumor "not good at the present time...
...longer to play town council for every hamlet, passing petitions for dog wardens' tenure and the like, and clogging up its own operations in the process. It would also face the task of providing a new concept for limiting and organizing the proliferous state agencies (221 at present). Any such reform would be impossible within the Legislature, for it would strengthen the control that the Commission on Administration and Finance wields as the central housekeeping department...
...have embarrassed the Founding Fathers, who had a healthy 18th century distrust of democracy, and they should not bother Kennedy's supporters. Those liberals who advocate reform of the college in the name of democracy are preaching an unreal politics, for liberal reform has an investment in the present electoral apparatus. Under the system as it stands, counting each state's vote as a bloc favors the states with large urban populations and gives decisive influence to minority groups within these states. Anyone who doubts this can look at the enormous (and correct) importance attached to these states by both...
...three proposed alternatives to the present electoral system keeps this important liberal advantage. Even the advocates of direct popular election admit that the Southern and small states would never permit it, and it is thus out of the question. Nor is the plan whereby a state's votes would be allocated proportionate to its popular vote wise from the liberal point of view; in fact, this plan is favored by the one-party South precisely because it would split the votes of the great populous urban states, leaving the Southern vote unified. A third formula, to elect electors from Congressional...