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...says Stephen Hess, once a speechwriter for Dwight Eisenhower...
Stephen H. Hess, 41. Scholar-Activist Hess alternates between working in Government and writing about it. A senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, a nonprofit organization that analyzes public policy, he is a Johns Hopkins political science graduate who briefly taught government, at 26 became a White House speechwriter under Dwight Eisenhower. In 1969 he was appointed national chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. Writer or co-author of five books on politics, he is now writing Organizing the Presidency, a book he describes as a primer for future Presidents...
...will do drawings," wrote De Kooning's friend and biographer, Critic Thomas B. Hess, "on transparent tracing paper, scatter them one on top of the other, study the composite drawing that appears on top, make a drawing from this, reverse it, tear it in half, and put it on top of still another drawing." What this show indicates most clearly about De Kooning's enormous output as draftsman is that he managed to synthesize the painstaking approach to drawing that he learned as an art student in Rotterdam with the demands of spontaneity, which, by temperament, he deeply...
...Hess Yntema and Dave Brumwell received All-Ivy swim honors yesterday in three events each...
PUBLIC FINANCING. "Public confidence in the electoral system is so low," says Stephen Hess, a former Nixon aide and now a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, "that federal financing should be given a try." But many incumbents, particularly in the House, mortally fear such subsidies as a free ride for challengers. Some conservatives fret that public financing, especially if it is combined with strict limitations on private contributions, would give a big edge to liberal, issue-oriented candidates who can mobilize unpaid volunteers-students, housewives, union members. As Herbert E. Alexander, director of the nonprofit Princeton-based Citizens...