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...issue of financing research contracts is not simply a question of whether tacit pressure exists to divert pure research to military applications, but whether military agencies are best qualified to direct the vast bulk of government research and thus the direction of science's long-range development. the government should realize that some research is necessary for any modern corporate entity to thrive, and that pure science is justifiable on its own merits and not as a mere prop for military development or international competition...
...Army reorganized itself along lines conforming to units equipped with tactical nuclear weapons. Kissinger was the guiding force, and his influence emanated from his theory that wars could be limited by a tacit understanding with an enemy that we would not escalate into strategic nuclear attack if they would not. The only problem was to establish that tacit knowledge firmly in the enemy's mind. Those of us involved in the service at that time felt that public discussions of this limited policy by the armed forces would tend to establish the knowledge. It seems to have worked...
...then Yale, Princeton, and the HRPC report. President Pusey's damper on a housing exchange until the Harvard Faculty gains authority over resident girls finally has upset the tacit timetable. Surprisingly, except for an unsuccessful phone call interceding on behalf of the Winthrop-Currier coed plan, Mrs. Bunting has had no known direct communication with the Harvard administration on coed housing. Radcliffe has apparently accepted at face value President Pusey's insistence on Faculty authority before coed housing is possible. Hence, the back-of-the-mind idea that merger would some day come has given way to a good chance...
...been the attitude and policies of the U.S. Last week, 20 months after the war, Washington began a round of bilateral talks at the United Nations aimed at exploring common ground for a settlement. If that provided a sense of diplomatic movement at last, it was also a tacit admission that the Johnson Administration's policy of letting the two sides work out their differences themselves is no longer valid. For better or worse, the move committed the U.S. to the first step down a long and obstacle-strewn diplomatic road...
...riots at other colleges brought the issue to national attention, and the protest over Soc Sci 5 provided an example closer to home. The solution Rosovsky found was a quiet hedge: the committee that is to search for the new professors will be half student and half faculty. The tacit understanding seems to be that students won't be saddled with any professors they find unbearable. Considering the inevitable objections that any overt policy of "student control" would spawn, the report's minor equivocation seems justified. JAMES M. FALLOWS