Word: galbraith
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Meeting in Washington, the A.D.A. national board--headed by John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics--endorsed Humphrey by a 71-16 vote, but urged him to make a "forthright call for an unconditional cessation of the bombing" of North Vietnam...
Unlike the rest of the news board, we on the sports board can't offer you the intimate companionship of beautiful girls or the opportunity to meet John Kenneth Galbraith. But the first you can do on your own and the second probably isn't worth the time. What we have to offer is obvious--Harvard's sports teams, around 17 at last count. We'll cover the pro teams in greater depth this Winter and if you come out now, who knows but you may spend most of reading period in the Boston Garden press...
...their own political careers, are wary of becoming too closely associated with the national ticket. Many partisans from the McCarthy-Robert Kennedy-George McGovern antiwar ranks have come over to the Vice President, but most have done so reluctantly and are supporting him without enthusiasm. Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, was less than passionate when he allowed: "I expect in the end that I will keep my franchise as a Democrat." Because he is in a tough campaign for re-election in South Dakota, McGovern, an old Senate friend of Humphrey...
...classification that crosses ethnic, social and income barriers. Typically, outside the South anyway, they are factory workers or others in low-to middle-income brackets who are tired of being told that Negroes have equal rights. "I guess I'm what you might call a racist," explains Joe Galbraith, a millwright at Ford's Rouge complex outside Detroit. "I've lived with Negroes. I've slept with them. I've fought with them. And I've had it. These people want everything for nothing. They don't want to work...
Virtually every liberal Democratic organization not already for Humphrey may ask some price for its support. The Americans for Democratic Action will meet this week to decide whether to endorse Hubert, and John Kenneth Galbraith boasts: "Only our people can elect him." But, he insists, "we aren't going to endorse the war. We aren't going to endorse the old foreign-policy priesthood that got us into this mess, and we aren't going to endorse the right of the Chicago police to beat up the youngsters who work for us. So everything depends on whether...