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...political lives. "If people come here to talk they must be able to be honest, and in order to be honest they must either have a certain distance from their subject or subtlety of speech." Instead of political or ceremonial events, Peretz says he would like to hear Dean Acheson speaking on Greece and Turkey or Oscar Huing on the origins of the Poverty Program. "If the Institute is genuinely interested in education, it will not continue to bring up one big pol after another," he said...
...Maryland's gubernatorial contest, old Democratic Trusty Dean Acheson announced for Republican Spiro Agnew in preference to his party's nominee, George Mahoney, who is openly courting the anti-integration vote...
Replying to the French eviction notice, the U.S. made it clear that it will need more time to move than De Gaulle wants to give and that, if necessary, it will stall and haggle to get it. Principally drafted by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who two weeks ago called De Gaulle's view of the NATO alliance "utter nonsense," the reply's first version was so strong that Lyndon Johnson winced at it, sent it back to be given a milder tone...
...North American Newspaper Alliance is not affiliated with a newspaper. Founded in 1922, it specializes in big bylines. In 1936, it sent Ernest Hemingway to cover the Spanish Civil War; more recently, it hired Harry Truman to comment on politics. This month Dean Acheson will write a report on Viet Nam. NANA's 19 full-time staffers also turn out yards of women's news on food and fashions for the service's 140 U.S. clients...
...occasion was a state dinner for West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. In his honor the White House invited a spirited, varied list of 140 guests, ranging from Dean Acheson to Gene Autry, George Meany to Thomas Dewey. By candlelight in the evergreen-decked state dining room, they feasted on roast duckling, Bibb lettuce salad, lobster imperial and "Yule log" dessert (chocolate cake coated with mocha butter)-the last culinary triumph of White House Chef René Verdon, a Kennedy find who heatedly gave notice a week before the party that he was leaving...