Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be the second time that Schelling has helped to shape programs of assistance to foreign countries. In 1950 he worked under Averell Harriman, helping to develop the foreign aid program -- the annual package of military, technical and economic assistance that has become so familiar since...
...will, as invariably in the past, lose. Not only do liberals have votes, and this in an election is not an unimportant detail, but we have more votes each year. And more important than votes we have political energy. Nothing ever presents such a picture of collapse--as Averell Harriman observed many years ago--as a Democratic campaign in which the liberals are sitting on their hands...
...government's foreign-policy establishment who refuses to prattle on about "raising the costs of aggression." Nor does he waste time trying to persuade the world of America's resolve to see the Vietnam war through to an "honorable" conclusion. Goldberg, along with roving ambassador W. Averill Harriman, seems to be manning the peace front -- and deserves more sympathy than his containment-minded compatriots...
...phone rang in NBC's Washington studio just as Correspondent Ray Scherer wrapped up a Today show interview with Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman. Scherer picked it up only to catch an earful of criticism. "You didn't look as good as he did," the caller complained. "The lighting on you wasn't good." Scherer's critic was neither his wife nor Today's New York producer -it was Lyndon Johnson...
...just don't understand," said Novelist Truman Capote, not deigning to identify "they." "This is purely and simply a party for my friends." The trouble was that no one could quite believe that Truman's 540 most intimate friends could be composed of the likes of Averell Harriman and Sammy Davis Jr., Walter Lippmann and Frankie Sinatra, William Baldwin, James Baldwin, Tallulah Bankhead and the Marquis and Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. Yet the fact is that he possesses an almost endless entrée into the world of the great and the glamorous; as he modestly puts...