Word: mann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students of the Johnson Administration's hierarchy have long since earmarked Thomas C. Mann, 52, special presidential assistant and Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (TIME cover, Jan. 31, 1964), as a man on the rise. Last week Tom Mann rose: President Johnson appointed him Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, replacing New York's former Governor Averell Harriman, 73, whose title was Under Secretary for Political Affairs. The titles are interchangeable, and it is up to the President to decide what he wants to call his No. 3 State Department man, behind Secretary Dean...
Harriman now becomes an ambassador at large, an amorphous position that the White House defined as "handling specific high-level assignments in the department and abroad." To take Mann's place at State, but not as a White House assistant, Johnson picked Jack Hood Vaughn, 44, who is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Panama and has spent most of the last 16 years in Latin American jobs...
Fellow Texan Mann has impressed the President ever since his appointment as Assistant Secretary 13 months ago. Johnson has often exclaimed to associates about Mann: "He's great!" With quiet skill Mann helped persuade 19 of the 20 nations of the Organization of American States (Mexico is still holding out) to join the U.S.'s economic trade embargo against Cuba. He also tightened controls over the disbursal of Alliance for Progress funds, helped build up the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance into a forum where Latin Americans can realistically criticize and improve on their own national self...
Last week a U.S. delegation led by Assistant Secretary of State Thomas C. Mann returned from preliminary talks with the Panamanians, and the report was discouraging. As one U.S. spokesman put it: "Our Government will never build the new canal where it would mean 50 more years of conflict...
NIRVANA (Atlantic). Flutist Herbie Mann and Pianist Bill Evans stage a slowdown, giving a performance that is either extremely cool or simply congealed. There are some pleasant Oriental overtones but scarcely a beat, let alone a pulse, in most of the pieces (Willow Weep for Me, Mann's Nirvana); Cole Porter's I Love You is a cheerful exception...