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Despite his almost legendary absences from the campus, Galbraith, 66, is one of Harvard's best-known professors, and probably one of the world's most famous economists. He also emerged as a jet-set superstar who is as likely to be skiing in Gstaad, speech-making in Washington or writing in New Delhi as he is to be lecturing in Cambridge. Active in liberal politics, he introduced J.F.K. to Harvard intellectuals (and became J.F.K.'s Ambassador to India). In addition, Galbraith wrote bestsellers in which he chided capitalism and the American compulsion to produce ever more...
...slopes of Crans-Sur-Sierre, Jackie Onassis, in a snappy jacket and warmup pants, cut such a dashing figure that at one point she careered downhill and landed in a split. Son John, 14, was more conservative, preferring to give a Bronx cheer to a photographer. In Gstaad, Novice Nicholson was struggling with the subtleties of wedeling. "He loves zooming downhill," sighed Temporary Instructor Polanski. "His style is like a guy who scratches his left ear with his right hand...
...take for granted-the pervasive signs of economic growth and prosperity. London, Paris, Milan and Frankfurt are cacophonous with construction and clogged with cars. An international network of autostradas, Autobahnen and autoroutes links the Continent's major (and even minor) cities. In winter, such fashionable ski resorts as Gstaad, Chamonix and St. Moritz are booked solid; in summer, there is a mass migration from Europe's colder climes to such resorts as the Costa Brava and the Costa del Sol, as well as to (almost) unspoiled beaches on Sardinia and Yugoslavia's Adriatic coast...
...DICK CAVETT show is a more comfortable forum than Lowell Lecture Hall and we live with the consequences of that. If John Kenneth Galbraith would rather chum around Gstaad with William Buckley, that's his choice, but students at Harvard are unlikely to learn as much from him as they might from someone who spent on occasional winter in Cambridge...
...years ago, Prince Alexis ("Obie") Obolensky, a member of the jet set and a shrewd entrepreneur, set out to make backgammon a popular game. Phase 1 of his elaborate strategy was to exploit backgammon's snob appeal. He haunted the posh watering places from Palm Beach to Gstaad, talking up the game. "I made people think they should be doing it, that only the best people were involved," he recalls. "We brought in snobbism. Only in America can that kind of thing be done...