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...skeptics were particularly concerned about the New Hampshire primary. McCarthy had reportedly been influenced by John Kenneth Galbraith, Allard K. Lowenstein, and others who argued that a victory in the Granite State contest--the nation's first--would be a necessary first step in a successful campaign to unseat Johnson...
...Boston weekend amply demonstrated the senator's determination. It remains to be seen whether he can put together a professional organization which will aggressively push his candidacy. It is, as Galbraith observes, a long chance. McCarthy now says privately he is going to try to go all the way. Given the right campaign, he could literally win. --PARKER DONHAM...
...event, disentangling the universities, the corporations, and the government would be a difficult task. For as John Kenneth Galbraith as-tutely argues in The New Industrial State--and his observations are not particularly original in this respect--the twentieth century has witnessed a growing dependence of both politicians and businessmen on academic talent...
This relationship has deepened, because universities produced most of this nation's scientific innovations and discoveries, not to mention much of the analytic and theoretical social science that is indispensable to policy-makers. As this has occurred, and outside funds for research and development have flooded college communities, Galbraith claims, universities have already abdicated their traditional roles as the mainsprings of reasoned, sophisticated dissent in America...
...Peace Prize to admit to even a single incarceration, marched off to jail last week for at least the 15th time. Garbed in his regular Bastille Day uniform-denim shirt, sweater and blue work pants-King flew from Atlanta to Birmingham, Ala., toting three books, the Bible, John Kenneth Galbraith's The New Industrial State, and William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. He was whisked by sheriff's deputies to the Bessemer jail, about twelve miles from Birmingham in a Ku Klux Klan stronghold. "I am sad," he noted, "that the Supreme Court could...