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Finally, there are the many faculty members who apparently have not made up their minds yet, waiting for the crowded field to narrow down. Edwin O. Reischauer, former United States Ambassador to Japan, and one of Mr. Muskie's "Braintrust" according to Newsweek, notes that he is more interested in foreign policy than domestic politics. Stanley Hoffman, an expert on international relations who has not been hesitant to offer ideas on how to get out of Vietnam, says he hasn't given the subject much thought. Paul A. Freund, also mentioned in the Newsweek article as a Muskie contributor...
...Ultimate Experience. His aim in publicizing this braintrust operation, it appeared, was to show his colors with his customary frankness. He was not announcing his candidacy-or not exactly. Muskie did allow that the presidency is "the kind of challenge that I'd feel to be the ultimate experience in political life." Would he shrink from it? "Certainly not." But he is also philosophical about his chances for the nomination: "I don't have quite the head of steam about running for President that I had six months ago. If I didn't get the nomination...
Speaking before a Tocsin meeting, on Wednesday. Grossman explained that the peace movement had to obtain political influence within the existing two-party system. He appealed to Tocsin members to provide a peace braintrust that could give candidates the information needed to uphold a PAX platform...
Fidel Castro is uncharacteristically silent these days. So is little brother Raul. But it is hard to keep them all quiet in Cuba's talky regime. To a correspondent from the London Daily Worker, Minister of Industries Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, who was Castro's one-man braintrust back in the hills, last week gave an interview defiantly proclaiming Cuba's firm intention to go right on trying to export its revolution throughout Latin America. What is more, said Che, "if the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart...
...least three leading experts-Mathematician Hua Lo-keng, Geologist Li Ssukuang and Dr. Wong Wen-hao-voluntarily returned to the mainland from the West. Without a shot or a kidnaping, the Communists quickly recruited an invaluable braintrust: 233 topflight scientists and 691 second-stringers. Ironically, 35 of the 50 most talented were educated in the West, 25 in the U.S. Only eight of these leaders were known to have any pro-Communist leanings, and only three were party members...