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...member of the new White House family who is getting the biggest buildup by colleagues as the Administration's "strongman" is McGeorge Bundy, 41, Kennedy's special assistant on national security affairs. Yaleman Bundy earned his reputation as a dynamo at Harvard, where he became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at 34, and, soon afterward, a force on university administration councils. Kennedy is well aware of Bundy's growing prestige and says with a chuckle: "I think I'll continue to have residual functions...
...drama in First Family comes from the interplay between two families, the colored McKinleys and the white Charleses. Mr. McKinley is a sedate, scholarly classics teacher. He has a self-effacing sister and a gangling, precocious, twelve-year-old son named Scotty. The family dynamo is Rachel - a cool, lovely, relentless wife and mother. She intends to put her shoulder behind the integration issue, and her shoulder consists most ly of chip. As Rachel puts it: "I don't mind disturbing people a little. It's my idea to make them think about what they're like...
...stars, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; Do Re Mi, with a story of jukebox racketeering that is mere rundown Runyon, is almost saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; and the best of the lot may well be the pert, piquant French import, Irma La Douce, with delightful Dynamo Elizabeth Seal. The holdovers-not counting the perennials such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man-are topped by Fiorello!, an unpretentious reminiscence of the Little Flower, and Bye Bye Birdie, a sprightly spoof of an Elvis-type monster...
...Words. Because she was a pacifist, Henrietta Szold herself at first could not get into British-mandated Palestine. She at last persuaded Viscount Samuel, the newly named High Commissioner, to use his influence. Once in, she stayed there most of her remaining 25 years, and proved herself an organization dynamo. In the years from 1922 through 1931, Hadassah's volunteer medical services spent more money ($445,000 to $655,000 a year) than the mandate government's Health Department. They opened scores of hospitals, clinics and mother-and-child welfare stations...
...system four years ago by WKNO-TV in Memphis. Results were so impressive (2,000 illiterates learned to read and write in four months) that the lessons have been adapted with UNESCO aid for TV use in India, Africa and the Middle East. ¶for Courage. Dynamo behind this week's U.S. drive is bustling Mayes Behrman, 67, literacy director of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., which teaches simple crafts to mountain people. Last year Behrman raised $16,000 to get WKNO's 98 lessons kinescoped, ran them over Charlotte's WBTV...