Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longest span of time that a person's thoughts can remain centered on something other than himself. Elizabeth Taylor rates three minutes, the Rev. Martin Luther King four hours. Some New Frontiersmen get only so-so ratings-President Kennedy 29 minutes, Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman 12.5 minutes. Suspected perpetrator: John Kenneth Galbraith, 54, Harvard economist, until lately U.S. Ambassador to India. Galbraith's McLandress dimension, the book says, is only 1½ minutes. When a newsman asked him whether he knew Epernay's identity, Galbraith gave a cagey reply: "Who is Epernay? I have...
...National Press Club, a reporter echoed such misgivings by asking Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman whether Russia's record of broken promises did not make the pact worthless. "That is a typical question of a semi-informed person," snapped Harriman. Then, as nervous laughter swept the room, he added: "If I offended anybody, I'm delighted." Chances are he offended a lot of people...
...people of China." The Soviets replied in kind, called the Red Chinese "wild men" who borrow their arguments against the test ban from De Gaulle. "Sooner or later," said Pravda, "the madmen will have to shut up." And Khrushchev optimistically and probably accurately told Test Ban Negotiator Averell Harriman that it will be "a long time" before Peking has its own nuclear bombs...
Comparing Khrushchev and Stalin, Harriman recalls that while Stalin often told him that Communism would triumph because of capitalism's failures, "15 years later in the same office, with the same pictures on the wall, Khrushchev says the Reds will win because of their own successes. The faith is not fluid, but the expression of it is." Moscow's present "peaceful" line cannot be considered irreversible. What is irreversible, Harriman thinks, is "the freedom from Stalin's kind of terror and the Russians' effort to build a better life for themselves...
Competition for Survival. The Moscow agreement and the prospects it raises are not merely events in the cold war; they are also events in the long, distinguished career of Averell Harriman, at 71 an old man on the New Frontier. He is a figure of another generation, yet very much on top of present events; hard of hearing, yet noticeably keen in his political perception; a rambling speaker (his dictation, says his secretary, is "impressionistic"), yet hard and precise of thought. In the period of change that is bound to follow the test ban treaty, Harriman's thinking...