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Almost from the day of his election, Kennedy has marked up an enviable record in tailoring ideology to practical purpose. His appointments add up as fascinating evidence. In the State Department, Leading Liberals Adlai Stevenson, Chester Bowles and G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams all got important jobs-but all will be working under mild-mannered, hard-minded State Secretary Dean Rusk, who last week made it clear to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Kennedy Administration will not be setting any new foreign policy worlds afire come Jan. 21. Again, as chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers Kennedy chose...
India was reassured last week when Kennedy's Secretary of State Dean Rusk gave his equable view of neutralism (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). And the Indians already feel they have a friend in Kennedy's Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles, who was an unflagging ambassador to New Delhi from 1951 to 1953, and. in one top Indian diplomat's words, "won't have to rely on the advice and information of subordinates to understand our problems...
...Thanks. Mann himself was one of Kennedy's first candidates for what is becoming, at least in terms of responsibility, an increasingly important job. But Career Officer Mann was physically worn out after four years of 70-hour weeks in Washington; he declined with thanks. Chester Bowles passed up the job in favor of his State Department Under-Secretaryship. Adlai Stevenson, who toured Latin America early in 1960, was a possibility, but he went to the U.N. Puerto Rico's Governor Munoz Marin was approached; he, too, turned it down because he wanted to complete his program...
...confuse matters, the reverse is also true. Harvard's Dean Bundy, for instance, is a Yaleman ('40). In fact, Yale runs second to Harvard in top appointments, with eight alumni, from Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles ('24) to Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman ('13) and Deputy Attorney General Byron R. ("Whizzer") White (Law '46). Yale has already lost three faculty men to Kennedy, expects to lose two more, including Dean of the Law School Eugene V. Rostow. The next four years seem certain to produce countless occasions when Yaleman will meet Yaleman in a Washington...
Just how deep Chester Bowles will be able to dig in his bag of ideas in his new job will depend on Jack Kennedy and Dean Rusk. It could be very deep, for he will be, after all, No. 2 in the State Department...