Word: elliott
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Kennedy continues decimation of Harvard faculty with choices of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., as Commissioner of Internal Revenue; Elliott Perkins as Director of the National Park Service; William Y. Elliott as Director of the Tennessee Valley Authority; John Yovicsin as Coach of the White House Touch Football Team; and John Kenneth Galbraith as Ambassador to the Revolutionary Government of Ethiopia.... Pusey says that he is "pleased as punch and proud as a peacock," and makes plans to attend the inauguration.... Frank Sinatra's "Inaugural Gala" features the Harvard Band and Glee Club, and makes so much money that even Foster...
...announces the purchase of the Commander and Continental Hotels as the Tenth and Eleventh Houses. He also indicates that the University-operated MTA will soon raise its fare to 50 cents, in order to finance a "dynamic expansion program" for the College. From his temporary headquarters at Yellowstone Park. Elliott Perkins issues a statement blasting Harris for "distorting the ancient traditions of the University." ...Grady Watts, Chuck Kinney and Halaby all play quarterback, as the varsity football team drops five more games. Coach Durocher says, "We're building character, I guess...
...Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration last week, students in Economics 169 and 287 ran into a growing problem: the absent professor. David Elliott Bell had left abruptly to grapple with the U.S. budget; the same school's Economist Edward S. Mason was off surveying the economy of Uganda. Other Harvard absentees: Government Professor Arthur A. Maass (studying the water laws of Spain), Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (lecturing on the West Coast), Government Professor Carl Friedrich (at a Texas seminar on Hegel) and Economist John T. Dunlop (mediating for the construction industry). Students who came...
...decided to finish his book at Harvard about three weeks ago. After Lederer had lectured at a law school forum, Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell House, invited him to return for a few days to the place where he had stayed as a Nieman fellow. Lederer remained here for the longer period for three reasons: "First, the atmosphere was perfect for working; second, there were a great many scholars nearby to consult on factual details; and third, it was interesting to talk with the students, especially since the book emphasizes that the future of the country is with the young...
Died. John Elliott Rankin, 78, for 32 consecutive years (1920-52) Congressman from the First District of Mississippi; of a heart attack; in Tupelo, Miss. A shrewd parliamentarian, for all his demagoguery, wiry John Rankin consistently backed veterans' benefits and rural electrification (he co-sponsored the TVA bill with Senator George Norris), was equally steadfast in vituperating Negroes, Jews, labor unions and Communists (real or imagined) in a manner matched only by his fellow Mississippian, Senator Theodore Bilbo...