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Almost from the day of his election, Kennedy has marked up an enviable record in tailoring ideology to practical purpose. His appointments add up as fascinating evidence. In the State Department, Leading Liberals Adlai Stevenson, Chester Bowles and G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams all got important jobs-but all will be working under mild-mannered, hard-minded State Secretary Dean Rusk, who last week made it clear to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Kennedy Administration will not be setting any new foreign policy worlds afire come Jan. 21. Again, as chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers Kennedy chose...
...only say amen. I've got a tiger by the tail, and I haven't got any illusions." Milwaukee-born, Minow was named the outstanding graduate of Northwestern University's law school in 1950, went to work as an administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson after a spell as clerk to the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson. An aggressively loyal Stevensonian, Minow campaigned for the Governor (now his fellow partner in the law firm of Stevenson, Rifkind & Wirtz) in both 1952 and 1956, did his best to try to persuade Adlai not to fight...
George W. Ball, 51, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Another Stevensonian, Lawyer Ball was executive director of Adlai's volunteer groups in the 1952 campaign, took charge of his candidate's public relations in 1956. He is no stranger to Treasury corridors. After his graduation from Northwestern's law school in 1933, he served two years in Treasury during the yeasty reign of Henry Morgenthau Jr. before going into private practice in Chicago. Ball was a wartime federal gadfly for the Lend-Lease Administration and Foreign Economic Administration-experience that proved useful in his postwar...
...briefly crossed paths in the U.S. Senate, then went their respective ways. At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N. Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene - having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 - left that august body (voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen...
...University of Chicago's Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton submitted his resignation last March, a mighty talent hunt gripped the Midway. Out went letters to 60,000 old grads, asking for suggestions. Such academic statesmen as James B. Conant were consulted. Two committees pondered 375 possible Kimpton successors, including Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, and Harvard's Dean McGeorge Bundy. The debate led to a decision that Chicago needed neither a big name nor an experienced academic administrator, but rather, as Trustee Chairman Glen A. Lloyd put it, "a top scholar in his own right"-a bright light to lure...