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...into exile (to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) by John Foster Dulles in 1953. In 1957 he flirted with "disengagement," i.e., neutralization of Germany" and the disarming of NATO, as a means of reaching a settlement with the Russians. No less a person than his ex-boss, Dean Acheson. slapped him down. "Mr. Kennan has never, in my judgment, grasped the realities of power relationships," said Acheson, "but takes a rather mystical attitude toward them." But Tito's Yugoslavia should give Kennan an ideal opportunity to sense the internal rumblings of international Communism...
James Edwin Webb, 54, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Another of Kennedy's Phi Beta Kappa keymen (University of North Carolina, '28), chunky, intense Jim Webb was a wartime Marine pilot, Harry Truman's budget director (1946-49) and Dean Acheson's capable Under Secretary of State (1949-52). A well-to-do lawyer and businessman, he is a director of McDonnell Aircraft, which makes the Mercury space capsule, and assistant to the president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, whose driving force is Oklahoma Democrat Bob Kerr, the chairman of the Senate Aeronautical...
...attracted not only French but wellborn girls of all nationalities. The current Paris roster, she points out, now includes David Niven's twin nieces. Playwright Jean Anouilh's daughter Catherine, Tony Trabert's wife Shawn, along with a princess, a countess, and nieces of Dean Acheson and Paul-Henri Spaak...
...Chairman Fulbright decided that Rusk had "handled himself very well indeed." But the approval seemed to say more for the manner of Rusk's performance than its matter. Observed one veteran viewer of State Secretaries in their appearances before Congress: "He was as intelligent, quick, and knowledgeable as Acheson or Dulles. But he wasn't preachy like Dulles or patronizing like Acheson. Which is all to the good, for those are things that aggravate Senators...
...serve as dean of arts and sciences at Harvard, was long best known in the Yard for his trenchant course on the U.S. in world politics. Bundy, a liberal Republican, admires the foreign policy views of his close friend (and father-in-law of Brother William Bundy), Democrat Dean Acheson. He edited a volume of Acheson's public papers, once noted that the former Secretary of State was right not to turn his back on Alger Hiss, adding that "Hiss could have been a little more grateful." For that kind of comment, Bundy...