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...became the first of his family to attend college. A campus politician, he headed everything from the athletic association to the interdormitory council. Last summer he worked hard to nominate Lyndon Johnson for President in Los Angeles, where he organized Johnson's uproarious airport welcome. This summer, Fulbright Scholar Grimsley heads for Bogota's University of the Andes to study Colombia's political system. His motto: "Not to make millions, but to make millions safe and happy...
...suburban Chicago couple, small, bright Refugee Rozlapa fell in love with Spanish at La Grange (Ill.) High School. With a George M. Pullman Scholarship, she wound up at Chicago, where she was Spanish Club president and earned a better than 3.7 average. Now she has a Fulbright fellowship to study in Madrid, hopes eventually to teach "in a large university like Chicago," where she can research and translate from the whole spectrum of Spanish literature. "I would be very happy," says she, "to get across to students the great interest I have in Spanish-how to manipulate the language...
...honor society chapter, and this year won the Palfrey Exhibition award for the outstanding scholarship student. He also tended babies, sold junior-executive hats to business school graduates and worked summers at the Sloan-Kettering cancer research lab. Already accepted at Harvard Medical School, he will first use his Fulbright Scholarship to earn a bachelor of philosophy degree in economics at Oxford's Brasenose College. "I want to learn how the National Health Service operates in England," says...
...committee was plainly cool. Even its chairman and longtime foreign aid champion, Arkansas' J. W. Fulbright, warned that there must be reforms: "We have had too many examples of countries in which our aid programs have been corrupted." Another staunch aid advocate, Wisconsin's Republican Alexander Wiley, observed: "This matter of foreign aid will have to be resold to the American people." Oregon's Wayne Morse put it more bluntly: "I don't think the American economy can stand this program." And Vermont's Republican George Aiken was downright unkind: "I see no sign that...
...toward the U.S. as their helper when, at the threat of war, men responsible for the formulation of U.S. policies back out of a tricky situation by declaring "I don't think the terrain and conditions are right for sending in our troops," as Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright apparently stated. The political conditions in Asia might not be all "pro" America, but I wonder where the Senator was when the U.S. fought a war in the Solomon Islands, the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Carolines and the Marianas. Those terrains are very similar to the terrains of Laos, South...