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...sense he had, for just before the banquet began, the news broke that Special Presidential Assistant Walter W. Jenkins, 46, one of Lyndon's oldest, closest friends and most trusted aides, had been arrested on the night of Oct. 7 in a Y.M.C.A. washroom just two blocks from the White House and charged with "disorderly conduct (indecent gestures)." Moreover, newsmen checking into Jenkins' police record discovered that on Jan. 15, 1959 he had been arrested in the same washroom on a charge of "disorderly conduct (pervert...
...believe philanthropy generally is not attuned to the times," said John D. Rockefeller III, 58, at a banquet in Manhattan. "We are too ready to settle for the tried and proven. Rather than venture, we dwell on the problems of yesterday, neglectful of the new needs of today and the impatient future." Rockefeller urged that private philanthropists delegate more responsibility to Government for established needs in public health and welfare, devote private funds to speculative areas, such as population research and the arts...
...room. The food looks delicious, at least at first; but now, even the reporters chasing Humphrey blanch at the sight of yet another dinner steak. Newsmen with Johnson get steak for breakfast-and Bloody Marys before breakfast if they desire. In the affluent society, the rubber chicken of the banquet circuit has been replaced by the rich diet of the campaign...
Also speaking at the banquet were Katherine Taylor and Edward Yeomans former directors of Shady Hill...
...award was made at the banquet session of the Council's 47th annual meeting, at which President Pusey presided. Pusey is the outgoing chairman of the Council. Over 1000 college and university presidents and deans are in attendance at the three-day meeting, which is being held west of the Mississippi for the first time...