Word: gavin
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Among the known nonfiction quantities will be Inside Australia, by John Gunther, a new Julia Child cookbook, a determined tract about women by Feminist Betty Friedan, George Plimpton on a new swinging golfer named George Plimpton, some solemn warnings by General James Gavin, and some unsolemn ones from William F. Buckley Jr. William Manchester is back at work on his study of the Krupp industrial empire; both Robert Lowell and James Dickey have new books of poetry...
However his style of political persuasion is described, Lowenstein is now credited with being the prime mover in the Dump-Johnson-and-replace-him-with-McCarthy movement. He started it early last August while most of his liberal Democratic cohorts were either promoting General James M. Gavin or talking of starting a third party led by King, Galbraith or Gavin. The early September debacle at the National Conference for a New Politics in Chicago killed the third party movement. With declining hopes in the Republican Party and the total failure of the Draft Bobby Kennedy movement, Lowenstein's idea...
...Gavin, Kennedy, and Senator George McGovern (D-S.D.), and McCarthy were all visited by Lowenstein after his mid-September return from Southeast Asia. He was reportedly rebuffed by Gavin and Kennedy; he realized that McGovern, who is facing a hard fight for re-election to the Senate in 1968, could not possibly do it. Adamant in his search for an anti-war candidate, Lowenstein focused on persuading McCarthy, who was already deeply disturbed about LBJ and the War, to run. By mid-October, when Lowenstein visited Harvard in one of his frequent ten-state barnstorming tours, he was promising...
...papers of incorporation for the Cambridge Corporation were filed a very few months later, in the fall of '65. Signatories were Pusey, Killian, General James M. Gavin, chairman of the Board of Arthur D. Little, Inc., and the Most Reverend Thomas J. Riley. The papers were also signed by representatives of three Cambridge banks, the Polaroid Corporation, Lechmere Sales, and two prestigious local law firms...
...Council, from which retired General James M. Gavin resigned last August, has only an advisory function. It was created in January under the sponsorship of Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Hyman to gather intellectuals to advise the State Committee...