Word: harvardman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Attorney General Kennedy that Mississippi would protect the students from violence. Kennedy was deciding to trust Barnett and withhold federal forces from Mississippi when he got word that still another integrated bus contingent, led by Yale University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., was starting out for the South. Cracked Harvardman Kennedy: "Those people at Yale are sore at Harvard for taking over the country, and now they're trying to get back...
Thailand: Kenneth Todd Young, 44, Southeast Asia expert for New York's Standard Vacuum Oil Co. Another Harvardman,* Young served in the State and Defense Departments as an Asia specialist for twelve years before departing for the better-paying pastures of private business...
...Edwin Oldfather Reischauer, 50, is set to take over the embassy in Tokyo. Another Harvardman, Reischauer was born in Japan, graduated from Oberlin, received his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he is now director of the Center for East Asian Studies. Both scholar and diplomat, Reischauer spent considerable time in Japan, served on the State Department's Far Eastern desk in the hectic years of Asian upheaval after World War II, published more than half a dozen books on the Orient, has been an advocate of U.S. recognition of Communist China and a critic of American "overemphasis" on military power...
...Days" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the complaint was that "when a Harvardman gets into the White House, he doesn't act like one." These days, when a Harvardman is about to get into the White House, all of Washington looks like Harvard...
James Tobin, 42 and Kermit Gordon, 44, members of the Council of Economic Advisers. Shy, brilliant, three-degree (A.B., M.A., Ph.D.) Harvardman Tobin is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale and a specialist in statistical analysis of consumer purchasing. A believer in federal spending, he stands in economic thinking just a slight twist to the right of Council Chairman Walter Heller. Rhodes Scholar Gordon-the fourth Rhodes scholar for the New Frontier team, after Dean Rusk, Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa, Charles Hitch-also did graduate work at Harvard, took leave from his professorship at Williams College last January...