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...become a rallying cry for Democratic presidential candidates, organized labor and some business groups. Robert Reich, 37, a professor of business and public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, is one of the leading advocates of such a program, and his book The Next American Frontier has become a baedeker for industrial policy since its publication in May. Last week Reich was a guest at the meeting of the TIME Board of Economists...
...last Whig, Millard Fillmore. The Midwest gave Truman and Ike an edge. In almost every instance, a historian studying a specific President was more sympathetic to him. Military historians downgraded the Naval Academy's own Jimmy Carter. Afro-American historians rated Jefferson relatively lower; Western and Frontier historians put him higher...
...urge to reassess the Kennedy myth is understandable. But for those of us whose spirits were lifted by the New Frontier and who grew up "in the huts and villages of half the globe," often with a picture of J.F.K. on the mud wall, the legend is stirring and meaningful. Kennedy cannot be measured by his national accomplishments alone. He belongs to a larger world...
...gain personal strength as he talked of power and how to exercise it. Before he hobbled off to his bedroom on crutches, which he used when he removed his back brace, he was resolutely beckoning his nation from some far horizon to fall in behind him and hold the frontier of freedom...
...this happening would mean practically the assured destruction of a professor's career in science Whereas an English or History professor could make--but not easily--the transition back to the books after six to eight years as dean, one professor notes, most scientists would probably find that the frontier in their field had passed them...