Word: galbraith
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...somewhat smaller group of professors who also signed the advertisement. have since the primary publicly switched their allegiance to the man who defeated McCormack, Edward M. Kennedy '54. Among this group are Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government; Virginia L. Galbraith, a professor of Economics at Amherst College; and James McGregor Burns, a professor of Political Science at Williams College...
Advertising is aimed at changing consumers' wants. Sometimes it succeeds; sometimes it does not. Insofar as it leaves our wants unchanged, it is a simple waste of money. Insofar as it changes our wants, it remains a waste, although a complex one. The point is that Professor Galbraith, Mr. Packard, Comrade Khrushchev and Chairman Mao could change our wants more and faster for much less than the $12 billion charged by Madison Avenue...
...forward with speeches, pronouncements and comments about the economy. The most conspicuous effort was President Kennedy's Yale University speech. It was the work of several minds. Sometime Harvard History Professor Arthur Schlesinger Jr., now a presidential assistant, tried several drafts. Another former Harvard professor, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (now Ambassador to India) contributed a memo. Presidential Aide Ted Sorensen, a longtime Kennedy speechwriter, put together a separate draft, which, with some sprinklings from Schlesinger and Galbraith, became the basis of the final ver sion. Kennedy himself devoted hours to rewriting the speech, and he was still jotting away...
...first U.S. ambassador ever to visit the Indian protectorate of Sikkim, Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith decided to dress native. Though most good-sized Sikkimese stand somewhere south of his chest, Galbraith (6 ft. 8 in.) surprisingly found a spotted mandarin coat from a bazaar in the capital, Gangtok, that neatly draped his gangling frame. Looking like an unhappy giraffe in his new outfit, Galbraith attended a dinner given by the Maharaja of Sikkim. Later, the younger members of the ambassador's party twisted until 3 a.m. after getting lessons from the Maharaja's teenage granddaughter, Princess...
...friends in the government that it will probably have to pick them off according to seniority. Archibald Cox '34, Solicitor General, is therefore an excellent candidate; his boss, Robert F. Kennedy '48, and David E. Bell of the Budget Bureau are not. Still, one can't forget John Kenneth Galbraith and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, who both protested Harvard's giving too many degrees to Republicans, and who may both be ready for the honor themselves. Whizzer became Mr. Justice White too late...