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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience of the four ex-Law School professors has been slightly less academic than Bell's. Abram Chayes, who has served as Legal Counsel to the State Department since 1961, has been deeply involved in several key foreign policy issues throughout his stay in Washington. "There is nothing that doesn't have legal aspects," says Chayes, who has dealt with problems ranging from, the Cuban crisis and the Moscow test-ban treaty to the first international piracy case in 100 years--the hijacking of the Santa Maria from Portugal in 1961. He has worked on the thorny legal questions...
Although disappointed with the setbacks the foreign aid program has suffered, Bell enjoys his position immensely. "Anyone in this job would have the feeling he is learning a lot," Bell explained. "I knew very little about Latin America before I took the job, and have been able to do some traveling there." Suprisingly enough, however, Bell has done less traveling this year than he did while at Harvard. A founder of the Development Advisory Service here, he spent considerable time visiting DAS field projects in Pakistan and Iran...
Unlike the other Harvard professors in Washington, Bell has been able to deal with the "same kinds of problems" he studied at Harvard. Before he went to Washington, Bell taught Economics 169, the problems of underdeveloped countries, a course which is now given by J. Kenneth Galbraith...
...Instead, Bell says, the difference between Washington and Cambridge is one of time. "Here, you're working on matters which you're not carving out yourself. You must fit your schedule around whatever problems arise." Otherwise, there are many similarities. Both Cambridge and Washington, Bell says, "are lively centers of world affairs," ties between the two cities are very close. "The government tries to draw on the best brains available, and a good number of Harvard men visit Washington in an advisory capacity. The door to the academic life is open, and we all consider ouselves basically academic people...
...Washington upon which all five former professors could agree: social life in the nation's Capital. Cox avoids it by living in Virginia; Surrey avoids it to have time for his work; and McNaughton stays away on general principle. Chayes attends the mandatory diplomatic functions but complains silently. Bell, who is probably forced to appear at more events than others, defers to feminine judgment. "Ask any of our wives. They all want to return to Cambridge...