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...that in this land of the free, Paderewski rests easily." 11:30 a.m. Made a speech, this time in the Departmental Auditorium, lauding the work of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. That afternoon the President defended his tax-cut and budget policies in a luncheon speech to the trustees of the Committee for Economic Development, an association of high-level businessmen and educators. In a question-and-answer session afterward, he said that "it would be a mistake" to save money by slowing down U.S. space programs, predicted the Russians would make "spectacular efforts...
...wish they would forget about my birthdays; they only make me a year older," said former President Harry S. Truman, turning 79. But a luncheon in Kansas City brought out more than 200 friends, and the grand old man from Independence beamed broadly as the crowd sang Happy Birthday. Highlighting the festivities. President Kennedy phoned to say: "You can outwalk Bobby and outtalk Hubert." It was almost true. Under doctor's orders to cut down his matutinal strolls, Harry still puts in a solid week's work at the Truman Library, attends to piles of correspondence, soon plans...
President Kennedy, whose six-year term as an Overseer expires in June, did not attend today's meeting. But a number of former Overseers and Harvard men did attend the luncheon, including C. Douglas Dillon '23, Secretary of the Treasury; Francis Keppal '33, former dean of the School of Education and now commissioner of Education; McGeorge Bundy, former Dean of the Faculty and now special assistant to the President; and Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.), a former overseer...
...luncheon Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, addressed the Overseers, the Corporation, and their guests. Earlier in the day, Knox discussed the functions of the Center and Paul Mellon, Chairman of the Trustees of the Old Dominion Foundation, discussed the Center's inception...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will address the Overseers, the Corporation, and their guests at a luncheon Tuesday...