Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weight of Numbers. The words were among the most sensible any U.S. President has uttered about Latin America since Herbert Hoover proposed the Good Neighbor policy in 1928.* Until now, Inter-American Assistant Secretaries-including Mann himself in 1960-61-have been little more than a long, grey line of well-meaning but frustrated fellows. President Kennedy tried to solve the problem by sheer weight of numbers. In no particular order, and often simultaneously, he divided Latin American responsibility among the likes of old Roosevelt Brain-Truster Adolf A. Berle, Speechwriter Richard Goodwin (who coined the term Alliance for Progress...
...wildest of chance deflected Laurence into newspapering. After graduation from Harvard ('12), he earned a law degree at Boston University and went to New York. There, a well-connected Harvard classmate took him to a party at the Long Island home of Herbert Bayard Swope, publisher of the old New York World. A popular party game, "Ask Me Another," was in progress, and to the mortification of the host, who fancied himself as the reigning champion, Laurence won. "Who are you-and why?" demanded Swope of the interloper and offered him a reporter's job on the World...
Last week, mixing solid business with image-making busyness, Man-in-Motion Johnson was in top form. Although the widow of New York's Herbert H. Lehman had begged the President not to run the security risk, he made a 2-hr. 28-min. descent on Manhattan for the funeral of his ex-Senate colleague, as some 2,500 New York City cops and uncounted federal agents maintained the tightest security precautions in memory. Back in Washington, Johnson sent a draft bill to Congress to put John Kennedy's profile on the U.S.'s 50? piece, wrote...
Puccini: Tosca (RCA Victor). With Leontyne Price, Giuseppe di Stefano and Giuseppe Taddei, Conductor Herbert von Karajan has the finest Tosca cast that can be assembled today. Price surpasses Callas as the reigning Tosca, and Di Stefano and Taddei match their best past performances as Cavaradossi and Scarpia...
...vintner, writer, and angel to assorted arts, leading a life as carefully modulated as a string quartet. He is the official French translator of British Playwright Christopher (The Lady's Not for Burning) Fry, and with his wife Pauline is translating into French the Elizabethan poems of Herbert, Herrick, Wyatt, Drayton and Sir Philip Sidney. His daughter Philippine, 28, is an actress on the French stage, and his niece Nicole, 39, produces films. In Israel, Guy's sister Bethsabee, 49, has set up a crafts industry for refu gees, is the prime financial force behind the Martha Graham...