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...there still is an American Dream, the State of Texas is the American Dreamland. Here flourish the myths-of slim-hipped, soft-voiced frontiersmen and sky-eyed, sexy gals; of boom town bragging and spaces that are Great and Open; of easy wheeling and cool dealing that turn a fortune at the breakfast table and double it at the barbecue; of a DC-3 on every private airstrip and His and Her Cadillacs in every garage...
...honor its commitments in West Berlin. On the specifics of dealing with the Russians, the Kennedy Administration has compiled fully 54 separate proposals for Berlin, covering a wide assortment of contingencies. To make sure he got a variety of ideas, Kennedy requested memoranda on Berlin from many New Frontiersmen, including U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Adviser Dean Acheson, Ambassador to Yugoslavia George Kennan, and State Under Secretary Chester Bowles...
...that day last week was a relatively relaxed one in the life of Larry O'Brien, 44, whose job as President Kennedy's Special Assistant for Congressional Relations makes him one of the most important of all New Frontiersmen-with responsibility for seeing to it that the Kennedy Administration's programs become public...
...fight Juliâo and his Peasant Leagues, President Quadros is backing a man and a plan. Last week Quadros sent the man to Washington to seek help. Celso Furtado, 40, felt immediately at home with President Kennedy's frontiersmen. Slim and intense, Furtado is himself a northeasterner who got through economics courses at Cambridge and the Sorbonne on saved-up soldier's pay and a literary prize. He worked nine years for the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America laying out development plans for Mexico and Venezuela, made a study of the Brazilian economy, finally...
Flexibility for the Frontiersmen. The Commission's most notable suggestions for reform are all calculated to produce even more centralized direction of U.S. economic policy than already exists. Among the proposals...