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...ENIGMA OF FELIX...
Goodwin was young then--young, even for the Kennedy people. In 1958, after graduating first in his class from the Harvard Law School, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Felix M. Frankfurter. After working for a year on the House Commerce Commission's 1959 television quiz-show scandals, he joined the Kennedy Senate staff. By 1960 he and Theodore Sorenson were Kennedy's two chief speechwriters--indispensable to the campaign and to the formation of Kennedy's foreign and domestic policies. He was, in the words of Kennedy biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., "the archetypal New Frontiersman," a quick-witted...
...curriculum is one that has interested Sacks throughout his career. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1940 and got his law degree from Harvard in 1948. He was clerk to Judge Augustus N. Hand of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, before joining the Law School faculty in 1952. Sacks became professor of Law in 1955, associate dean in 1968, Dane Professor of Law in 1969, and acting dean in January 1971. He was appointed dean five months later...
Critics contend that some of the proposed budget cuts are self-defeating. New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn voices a widely shared fear that states and cities will raise taxes to make up for some of the proposed reductions in federal aid for education, health, transit and job-training programs. That would weaken some of the stimulus to the economy provided by cuts in federal income taxes...
...implemented." Koch added, however: "I agree that there has to be a reduction in spending. He has thrown down the challenge; it's very reasonable. If we don't like his proposals, it's up to us to propose alternatives." Said Manhattan Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn: "We should be warned that the pain of the cutbacks is likely to offset our pleasure from tax reductions. But we've got to give Reagan's program a chance, especially because we have no valid alternative...