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...crayoned sign on the door of Georgetown University's glass-and-concrete Hall of Nations in Washington announced a coming event: SOCIAL MIXER- BEER, PEOPLE, DANCING. But what went on inside the hall one night last week was hardly a mixer. It was the televised debate between Special Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy and critics of the Administration's firm Viet Nam policies, originally scheduled for May but postponed when the President ordered Bundy to the Dominican Republic...
Truman hit Baruch where he was most vulnerable, for Baruch wanted-and usually got-a good press. A Who's Who of acquaintances streamed to his Manhattan house and to Hobcaw Barony, his 17,000-acre plantation near Georgetown, S.C., and there was generally a newspaperman in the crowd. If not, the press would usually get a tip from the late Herbert Bayard Swope, famed, dynamic executive editor of the old New York World, and for nearly 40 years both friend and public relations counsel to Baruch...
...publications by Desan and Odajnyk are clear and extraordinary studies of Sartre's views on Marxism. Desan, a professor of philosophy at Georgetown, has written what is largely a guide to understanding the Critique. Odajnyk instead compares the "systems" of Marxism and existentialism and deals with the weaknesses in each...
...hour. What looked like a stroke of intuitive genius one day seemed to be a blunder of impulsive foolishness the next. Nobody has found this more frustrating than the President of the U.S. Said Lyndon Johnson in a four-hour, after-dinner talkfest with some 30 journalists in the Georgetown home of Columnist Max Freedman: "We think we've got something patched up there and then it falls apart...
...Harvard in 1961 by John Kennedy to become Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy. Surrey, 54, earns his $27,000 a year by putting in ten hours a day, six days a week at his paper-strewn desk, lugs a briefcase stuffed with documents to his Georgetown home most nights, rarely takes a vacation. Surrey has a grasp of taxation that has impressed Congressmen and Presidents alike, but he is such an articulate advocate of tax reform and such an implacable foe of tax loopholes that oil, mining and banking interests tried to block his nomination. He helped...