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Though originally appointed by President Kennedy, Budget Director Kermit Gordon came into his own in Washington under Lyndon Johnson. Reason: Gordon succeeded in keeping two consecutive budgets below the magic $100 billion mark, a feat that won him the ardent affection of figure-conscious Johnson...
Paul Buck's "Remembrance of Themes Past" is a case in point. Former Dean of the Faculty, Provost, and co-chairman of the Committee on General Education which produced the Redbook, he was an ardent warrior for improved undergraduate education in the forties and early fifties. But Buck the engaged combattant has become the retired soldier wistfully retelling the pasts' battles. He concludes by saying "I believe that a truly liberal education for today and tomorrow will combine a program of general education, a program of specialism [departmental education], and a collegiate way of living [a house system...
...collapse. There are uncomfortable parallels with the disintegration of the League in the 1930s: failure to stop aggression (then it was the Italian attack on Abyssinia), withdrawal by members (then Japan and Nazi Germany). Is the U.N. also falling apart? Should the U.S., the U.N.'s most ardent and generous backer, continue to support it? And just what is there left to support...
...drive against the death penalty is gathering new momentum, gaining support from such religious groups as the Methodist Church, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the American Baptist Convention and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Ardent in dividual abolitionists have ranged from the late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to Jack R. Johnson, tough warden of Chicago's Cook County Jail, who says, "The death penalty isn't punishment - it's revenge...
...more ardent comic fan was on hand than French Film Director Alain Resnais, who acknowledges that some of the techniques he used in Last Year at Marienbad were based on Mandrake. Resnais hopes to make a movie with Falk, but why, he wanted to know, did Mandrake warm up to Narda back in 1950? Did Falk change the relationship deliberately? Replied a rather stunned Falk: "I can't even remember what I was writing in those days, but I'm sure it wasn't deliberate...