Word: galbraith
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Another example of the ways in which legislation develops out of the universities is the Teachers Corps-one of the earliest exponents of which was John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics. Galbraith first proposed a National Teaching Corps of high-paid professionals in a speech...
...Galbraith followed this up with an article on the idea in Harper's and in conversations with Congressmen and White House officials. When Mrs. Johnson came up to Radcliffe to deliver the Commencement Address that spring, Galbraith talked to her about the proposal on the plane ride, and the First Lady endorsed it in her speech. From there on, says Galbraith, the idea of the Teachers Corps spread quickly. With support from Senators Gaylord Nelson (D. Wis.) and Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), the proposal soon found its way into legislation...
...Though Galbraith asserts that "virtually all the ideas for creative legislation comes out of the university," both he and Monro stress the fact that the enactment of the ideas into programs was the achievment of the Johnson administration. Johnson espoused the NDEA loan program, grandfather to part of this legislation, while still in the Senate, and his continued support says Monro, "has really made the difference." Johnson's Congressional support and the thorough preparation of his beefed-up Office of Education under Francis Koppel '38 have turned ideas into appropriations...
...midweek, she gave a black-tie dinner for 27 guests in honor of John Kenneth Galbraith, the witty economist who invented the phrase "the affluent society" and likes to continue his researches into it. A crowd stood by oohing and ogling as the Cadillacs began sweeping up to Jackie's Fifth Avenue apartment. Each guest was checked by Secret Service men before entering the building, but that hardly seemed necessary. The guests were easily recognizable and hardly the crashing type: the Bobby Kennedys (who arrived one at a time in a beige Lincoln Continental convertible), the Stephen Smiths...
...with Ermine. The dinner was pleasant enough, but it was just a starter. Afterward, everybody got into limousines again, bound for an art show at Manhattan's Asia House, to which Jackie and Galbraith had each lent some of their North Indian paintings. After a 45-minute tour of the exhibit, the group was off to the Sign of the Dove, a Third Avenue restaurant that Jackie and her friends had taken over for the evening and turned into a discothèque decorated with life-sized photographs of Galbraith, who is 6 ft. 8 in. tall. Someone nicknamed...