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...Perturbable Rusk. Throughout his Indian tour?and ever since?Galbraith also waged a hot war with the State Department. Communications from Washington took too long to arrive, he complained, and communicated nothing when they did get there. Occasionally, he set U.S. policy by himself. Entirely on his own, for instance, he announced that the U.S. recognized India's disputed northern borders. Washington gulped, but went along. Confronted by Galbraith, the usually imperturbable Dean Rusk has proved quite perturbable, and when the ambassador argued for a change in U.S. policy toward China, the Secretary shot back: "Your views...
...Galbraith's cables to the State Department were prized as titillating reading material. "Well, the President's policy has fallen on its face again," was a typical salutation. A postscript might be: "Now would somebody back there please get off his ass!" A little vulgarity, Galbraith found, assured a personal reading by President Kennedy...
Rather Flamboyant. No one has ever had to tell Galbraith to get moving. When he is in Cambridge, he generally breakfasts in bed before 8, then for four hours locks himself in front of an IBM electric typewriter in the downstairs study of his rambling Victorian brick house at 30 Francis Ave., Harvard's faculty row. (Among his neighbors: Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan and TV Chef Julia Child.) By his own stern command, he is never interrupted. Tuesdays and Thursdays he has noon lecture classes, Tuesday evenings a seminar. Afternoons, he receives visitors, counsels students, answers mail, and reads...
...Galbraiths' own commencement-time party in the spring is famous in Cambridge, as is the "young people's party" they give in the winter for sons and daughters of their friends. Galbraith's dancing style, which consists mostly of hopping up and down in place, has been described as the "pogo-stick stomp." The Galbraiths have three sons of their own: John Alan, 26 (Harvard '63), a clerk for California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk; Peter, 17, an eleventh-grader at Boston's Commonwealth School; James, 16, a sophomore at Andover. A fourth, Douglas, died of leukemia...
Drunken Pretzel. As an analyst of affluence, Galbraith does not speak from the curious outside. He summers on the family's 247-acre farm near Newfane, Vt., spends part of each winter at a commodious rented chalet in Gstaad, an elegant ski resort in Switzerland. William Buckley, a sometime skiing companion, says that Galbraith looks like "a drunken pretzel" coming down the slopes, but another observer describes his form as "graceful, lordly, solemn even?like Charles de Gaulle going down an escalator...