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...Baccalaureate service in the afternoon marked the start of the five-day celebration, which culminates Thursday with the imposing Commencement exercises in the Yard. At the ceremonies, witnessed by 15,000 persons, President Pusey will admit "to the fellowship of educated men" the senior class of 1962, and confer degrees in all on some 3000 candidates...
President Kennedy may come to see that confidence is the most valuable boon a President can confer upon the economy-far more valuable than the best-intentioned tinkerings. Failure to provide it could sabotage his economic programs, torpedo his campaign promise to "get this country moving again." And as a man who likes to read history books, Kennedy can hardly help recalling 1929 and its aftermath. The smashup of 1929, leading to the Great Depression, crushingly ended the rarely interrupted Republican dominance that began with Abraham Lincoln. For a proud Democratic President, it would be hard to imagine a fate...
...school system, transportation or police force-and has control over only 50% of the city's expenditures. New York City feels the heavy hand of Albany in many of its affairs; last week Mayor Wagner was unable to settle a citywide bus strike because he first had to confer at length with New York's Governor Rockefeller...
...sometimes be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically...
...worn to a legislative reception, returned to the Executive Wing while the unhappy news was pouring in. At 2:30 a.m., orders were given to the State Department's Latin American expert, Adolf Berle Jr., and White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to fly to Miami to confer with anti-Castro Cuban invasion leaders. Black coffee was being rushed about. Berle (since eased out of his State Department office) stood around in an overcoat complaining of the cold. Schlesinger was haggard and unshaven. Finally, Berle and Schlesinger left, and so did most others of the White House coterie. Abruptly...