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...performance of Scully and Sadlacok When Sadlacok in "on," he is the best outside-shooting guard Harvard has had in years. But when he's off, he's awful, and last weekend against Brown and Yale the 6-1 sophomore was shooting about as accurately as Marshal Dillon's adversaries in Dedge City gunfights...
...Guatemala but turned it down because "I didn't feel I was really qualified by age or service experience." He went instead as deputy chief of mission to Guatemala, a year later was named ambassador to El Salvador, and in 1957 returned to Washington to serve with Douglas Dillon, then Ike's Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs...
Thanks to his Princeton contacts, Forrestal landed a job as a salesman with the New York investment banking firm of Dillon, Read. Intense, hard-driving and a glutton for work, he became head of the sales force in three years, eventually company president. On the way up, he engineered deals that were the talk of Wall Street. But one of them furnished his enemies with ammunition to use against him in later years. Forrestal set up a bogus Canadian corporation in order to avoid paying some $100,000 in taxes-not an illegal act, writes Rogow, but not a very...
Pledges towards the goal of $10 million which will be needed to build the Library have reportedly already reached $2-3 million. Among the largest early supporters have been Averell Harrimas, Assistant Secretary of State; Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury; and the AFL-CIO. The Kennedy Foundation has also promised $1 million...
Mann battled to protect such Latin American exports as copper, lead and zinc to the U.S. Between 1958 and 1960, he almost singlehanded brought the U.S. into a worldwide marketing agreement designed to end wild fluctuations in coffee prices. When President Eisenhower and then Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon got to work on the complicated hemisphere-wide development plan that later became the Alliance for Progress, Mann was a principal adviser...