Rostow was about to become, for lack of anyone or anything better, a very influential intellectual—the very wrong man at the wrong place with the wrong idea.

因为找不到比他更合适的人，也没有更好的办法，于是，罗斯托就要成为一个很有影响的知识分子，这真是在错误的地方任用错误的人去实行他的错误主张。

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Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and undersecretary of state (political affairs).

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Thus going back to W.W. Rostow, we are somewhere in between stage 3 and 4.

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By then Mr Rostow had returned to academe, teaching and writing books.

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