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Once, while attending a musical in Manhattan with other company executives, he drafted the announcement of a major reorganization of American's divisions between the acts, using an aide's shoulder as his desk. When the British Broadcasting Corp. recently asked him to take part in a small...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, professor of History, and Bernice B. Cronkhite, dean of the Radcliffe Graduat School, will speak in the "briefing session on Wednesday, April 15. On Thursday, April 16, Lincoln Gordon '34, William Ziegler Professor of International Economic Relations, and Stanley S. Surrey, M.Ed. '50, Jeremiah Smith...
At the National Security Council meeting next day the President and his advisers settled the key elements of crisis policy. Military element: the U.S. would try to run ground convoys to West Berlin even if it meant challenging Communist roadblocks with armored column escort. Diplomatic element: the U.S. was ready...
To the Union of South Africa: Philip Kingsland Crowe, 51, wartime OSS officer in East Asia, Ambassador to Ceylon (1953-56), lately Secretary Dulles' special assistant for confidential press relations (policy guidance, planned news leaks). Crowe's successor as briefing officer: Pennsylvania Banker William Warren Scranton, 41, civic...
The new look carried over to the postconference briefing session with newsmen. Where Knowland had often been barely able to hide his distaste for key parts of the Eisenhower program, the new leaders seemed downright enthusiastic. Said Charlie Halleck: "We were all impressed with the attainability of a balanced budget...