Word: hamilton
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...State when the observation was printed-in Charlie Bartlett's column-that he was hardly the star of the New Frontier. A few months later, with claims of coincidence on all sides, Bowles was moved to a high-sounding job of lesser importance. Similarly, Foreign Aid Director Fowler Hamilton read repeatedly in the papers of his imminent departure from the Government. Partly to find out if the rumors were true, and hoping they weren't. Hamilton went to the White House, where his resignation was swiftly accepted...
...loyal to The Chief-to the point that he last week agreed to change jobs, take on the most unsought-after assignment that the Government has to offer. Starting sometime in late December or early January, Bell will become the new U.S. foreign aid chief, replacing Fowler Hamilton, whose resignation last month had been encouraged by President Kennedy...
...stormswept Agency for International Development. Foreign aid is unpopular with the public and with Congress; morale at AID is badly eroded, and basic concepts of foreign aid are in flux (TIME, Nov. 23). The administrative lines at AID are so snarled up after repeated reorganizations that Lawyer Hamilton, despite extensive personnel changes, was unable to get it operating effectively during his year in the job. He also lost prestige when Congress slashed the foreign aid budget a lot more heavily than usual. Hamilton did not really do anything wrong as AID's director-but neither, by Kennedy...
...lesson of history, to use a thoroughly non-operational concept, is that men can successfully live in more than one intellectual world. Priestley, discoverer of oxygen, published twenty-five volumes of theology; the great mathematicians Sylvester and Hamilton were voluminous poets. From these examples and many more like them, it does not follow that all one needs to do is sit back and wait for the gap between scientific and humane in America to close, as it did in Europe. The conspicuous lack of significant scientists or humanists who straddle the gap today testifies otherwise. Men can live than...
...tourist. There is no outhouse at one inn. The ruins of Herculaneum are a mess, and should have been "excavated methodically by German miners instead of being casually ransacked as if by brigands." He relates a meeting with Emily Hart, the 22-year-old protegee of Quinquagenarian Sir William Hamilton, then English ambassador to Naples. Emily, who later became Lady Hamilton, and still later helped Nelson win the Battle of Trafalgar, used to sashay around her villa swathed in clinging Greek robes. "Our fair entertainer seems to me, frankly, a dull creature," Goethe reports, adding judicially, "Perhaps her figure makes...