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...transcript of the Armed Services Committee hearings are almost as funny as the C.I.A. record is sad. McCone nonchalantly credited the American Ambassador to Guatemala for overthrowing the Arbenz government in 1954, and opined that academic freedom has its limits when professors start signing disarmament petitions in support of Adlai Stevenson...
Owings. Said the prospective father-in-law, a co-founder of the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architectural colossus: "I've never been either a Republican or a Democrat. But I've always been for Adlai...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, 53, bestselling controversialist (The Affluent Society), Harvard economics professor and sometime speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy. Canadian-born Galbraith has had half a dozen Government jobs, since 1956 has compiled searching surveys of India's economy, and is now Ambassador to India...
...hours), Galbraith thought the Goa matter should be dropped, argued that further U.S. censure of India was futile and would only make the Indians tougher to deal with on other issues. He sent off a critical telegram to the State Department when his old friend and sometime political hero, Adlai Stevenson, made a U.N. speech that sharply censured India's action. But Galbraith himself does not hesitate to criticize the Indians for their often inconsistent positions. Citing U.S. intervention against the Trujillos, Galbraith felt that the U.S. received little credit for a courageous
...bald, unprepossessing man who looked like a half brother to both Adlai Stevenson and Alfred Hitchcock, Giesler delivered his exhortations to juries in a crescendoing whine, sometimes trailing off into the deep purple. He defended Walter Wanger after the jealous producer fired a -38-cal. slug into the groin of a fellow whom he considered too attentive to his wife, Joan Bennett. Giesler decided this was temporary insanity. "For a brief mo ment," he told the jury, "through the violet haze of early evening, Wanger saw things in a bluish flash." The jury some how saw it that...