Word: kennan
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HARVARD--RADCLIFFE CHESTRA, conducted by Senturia '58, will present a Concert is Sanders Theatre at P.M. MAUREEN FORREST (who surely deserves caps) sing Mahler's Five Last Songs; Suzanne Burke will Ravel's Piano Concerto In G; the orchestra will perform Ernest Bloch's Suite Modale, Kennan's Night Soliloquy, first-desk-man Alex Ogle as fiautist. Tickets: $1.00, $1.50, $2.50 at the Coop...
George Frost Kennan, 56-will go to Belgrade as Ambassador to Yugoslavia. Onetime Ambassador to Moscow (1952) and longtime student of Communism and Russia, Kennan singlehanded did much to awaken the U.S. to the dangers of postwar Soviet imperialism, authored the Truman Administration's "containment" policy. Careerist Kennan was shunted into exile (to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) by John Foster Dulles in 1953. In 1957 he flirted with "disengagement," i.e., neutralization of Germany" and the disarming of NATO, as a means of reaching a settlement with the Russians. No less a person than his ex-boss, Dean...
Longtime Careerist George Kennan, whose tough talk made him persona non grata to the Kremlin and whose "containment" policies made him persona non grata to the Dulles-era State Department, will step out of seven years of political exile and go to Yugoslavia-if, as expected, Marshal Tito will accept him. Already packing his bags for India is Harvard Economist John Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society. He will replace Ellsworth Bunker, who, as an able diplomat and devoted Democrat, is in line for another top ambassadorship, most likely to Brazil...
Second place winner Alex Ogle '62 (flute) of Quincy House will perform Night Sollioquy by Kent Kennan and Suite Modale by Ernest Block with the Orchestra...
...gossip by announcing last week that he would not run for re-election to Congress but would campaign for Kennedy instead; Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; or one of two former U.S. Ambassadors to Russia-Aver ell Harriman or George Kennan. Adlai Stevenson is now being mentioned more often as Ambassador to the U.N., although his old friend Eleanor Roosevelt, who still wants him to be Secretary of State, last week said that "his qualifications are not those needed at the moment...