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...managed by a willful group of pretaped pre-programmed agents of the status quo, committed to extending the hegemony of the United States to the four corners of the earth. It won't work because it uses the guil?by-association technique-Sukarno-Mason-Suharto-Papanek-PKI-Vernon-Widjojo-in a community that is largely immune to that shabby approach. It won't work, most of all, because there isn't anything mysterious about the DAS. The DAS is doing exactly what it says it is doing. It is advising governments, as best it can, on how to improve their...
...Research and Development Board of the Defense Department, 1952-53, Associate Director of the Ford Foundation, 1953-54, and Vice President of the Ford Foundation, 1954-59. He is a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund (a suspected CIA conduit), the Rand Corporation, and the Rhodes Trust. Raymond Vernon was Assistant Chief of the International Resources Division of the State Department, 1946-48, the Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, 1951, and Acting Director, 1954. He is a member of the joint Presidential Congressional Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, a Director of Equity Growth Fund...
...Tactics Taught at Scarsdale High." The story solemnly described one high school teacher's course about guerrilla warfare, which included demonstration field maneuvers in the woods. Then, in December, the school board voted to accept 50 black elementary school students in a busing arrangement with nearby Mount Vernon. Though Mount Vernon finally vetoed the plan, many people in Scarsdale did not forget. When the school budget came up in May-a record $11 million plan calling for a 4.5% increase in the property tax on top of new assessments-it came out on the short...
...toothbrushes, trucks and some 2,000 other items a year, Consumers Union relies almost entirely on its own staff of 300, which includes 50 engineers. Merchandise is bought anonymously on the open market by shoppers stationed across the country and then shipped to CU's headquarters in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Automobiles are tested at a branch division near Lime Rock, Conn., but appliances, textiles, food, electronic goods and a category labeled "special projects" (odd items like flashlights, electric scissors, bicycles) have separate laboratories at the Mount Vernon operation. An engineer determines what tests will be needed and then supervises...
Apparently, the shrewd lord of Mount Vernon knew exactly what he was doing when he declined a salary in favor of expenses. Had he accepted a general's pay, Washington would have earned a total of $48,000 (in modern dollars) during the Revolutionary War. In 1783, he submitted vouchers totaling $414,108.21 plus $7,488 in interest, representing a 6% annual charge for his personal cash outlays. In addition, Washington claimed $27,665.30 in travel expenses for his wife Martha. He justified her visits to such winter resorts as Valley Forge on the grounds that the war kept...