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John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, announced Saturday that he would back Boston Mayor John F. Collins for the U.S. Senate...
...Galbraith declared his support at a testimonial dinner for Collins held at the Harvard Club of Boston. Professors from colleges in the Boston area attended the meeting, hosted by Galbraith and by James Q. Wilson, associate professor of Government...
...Although the 1960's are years of prosperity," Galbraith said in his endorsement, "America is faced with an urban crisis, the major national issue of the decade." Growing populations and scarce funds for development have multiplied problems in the management of every American city...
Cities need representatives in Washington with imaginative solutions to problems of transportation, low-cost nousing, improved health services, fair treatment of unions, and development of industries, Galbraith said. Collins's work in Boston, he noted, has proved his dedication to these issues...
...Galbraith's remark evoked a time when the U.S. still spoke of "dark" corners in the world and even of entire "dark" continents. In fact, he seemed to suggest a new principle for evaluating countries or regions-a sort of sliding obscurity scale-without making it clear how it would be applied. The standards of obscurity are historically fickle. Czechoslovakia and Poland seemed fairly obscure to many Americans in the 1930s, but events there led to World War II. Greece was an off-Broadway tragedy after World War II until Harry Truman decided to commit U.S. power there...