Word: fulbrights
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Really Hell. His credentials for the post were impeccable. Father: a successful attorney who was named to the federal bench by President Eisenhower. Education: Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, a year's study in Germany as a Fulbright scholar, back to Harvard for law school. Wife: Wellesley. Bartels looks like the cliche image of a college professor: prematurely gray, pipe-smoking, given to rumpled suits. Indeed, he teaches a night class at Rutgers Law School...
...Sealed Envelopes. A few members of Congress have protested vigorously against the spreading cloak of governmental secrecy, notably Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, who is concerned about national security affairs, and Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, who regards the proliferation of domestic intelligence activities as a serious threat to individual civil rights. It should be added, though, that the House and Senate are often less than candid about their own operations. The requirement that politicians report their campaign spending, for example, is honored more in the breach than the observance, since only a tiny fraction of funds actually...
...particularly worried that Congress will not pass the aid request to Cambodia. He says that the current visit of two Fulbright aides is mere "window-dressing" to show that Fulbright is concerned. "But even if Congress doesn't agree to the authorization," he adds, "the government will get the stuff in somehow. Either through the South Vietnamese or Thais or by dumping surplus Pentagon goods...
While he was at the Law School he became a close friend of Kingman Brewster who, Bok says, interested him in teaching. He spent a year in Paris as a Fulbright Scholar where he met Sissela Myrdal, daughter of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal. They were married...
CAMBODIA. Antiwar Senators including J. William Fulbright succeeded in attaching amendments to two separate bills meant to prevent President Nixon from using any more funds to send U.S. troops or military advisers into Cambodia: a $66 billion defense appropriations measure, and a $1 billion foreign aid authorization. The language in the defense bill was so altered by a House-Senate conference committee that the limitation was rendered ineffective-and another Senate wrangle was shaping up over that...