Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After wading barefoot through a monsoon-flooded rice paddy on his first major tour of the steamy Indian hinterland, the U.S.'s new high-pocketed, highbrowed Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith and 'his wife Catherine cooled off at surf-raked Puri on the Bay of Bengal. Though they had followed the local practice of hiring a personal lifeguard against the treacherous undertow, the ambassador's lady still barely went near the water...
Then Schlesinger, Galbraith, and Reischauer,--three professors close to undergraduates--were picked for high positions and Harvard men took mixed views of the New Frontier's talent search. Reaction around the nation remained highly favorable, until the inevitable first mistake by the Kennedy Administration (Cuba), while response at the College was one of pride--mixed with frustration over the loss of top instructors...
National events also impinged upon 1961 by removing some of the College's leading professors. Perhaps the 62 per cent of 1961 who voted for JFK '40 in a CRIMSON poll regretted their action when Bell, Bundy, Cox, Chayes, Galbraith, Reischauer, Schlesinger, et al departed for Washington. Among most, however, the reaction was merely a shrug of the shoulders--after all, most seniors need not worry about particular professors next year...
Last year the annual honorary skirmish was enlivened when Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 and John Kenneth Galbraith complained that the University honored too many Republicans and too few "liberal Democrats." According to the two professors, "No Democratic Governor of the Commonwealth has received an honorary degree for many decades, and no Republican Governor has failed to receive one." With Galbraith playing viceroy in India and Schlesinger glued to the White House TV set, President Pusey may go out on a limb this year and name Gov. Volpe--a Republican...
...with big plans donned top hat and swallow-tailed coat and, surrounded by an escort of sword-bearing Indian guards, called at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi. U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, a shade under 7 ft. tall in his topper (6 ft. 8 in. without it), could hardly have picked a more propitious moment to meet with Indian officials: the U.S. was about to offer $1 billion for basic development projects over the next two years if the other members of the "Aid to India Club," Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan, matched the contribution...