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...power. He holds budgetary and financial authority and can take over certain Faculty jurisdictions (admissions, for example); he appoints all Faculty committees; he controls parliamentary action and thus the process of legislation, by virtue of his position as presiding officer of the Committee on Educational Policy and as prime mover of other committees; and he exerts on-the-spot policy control by virtue of his administrative and budgetary authority...
However his style of political persuasion is described, Lowenstein is now credited with being the prime mover in the Dump-Johnson-and-replace-him-with-McCarthy movement. He started it early last August while most of his liberal Democratic cohorts were either promoting General James M. Gavin or talking of starting a third party led by King, Galbraith or Gavin. The early September debacle at the National Conference for a New Politics in Chicago killed the third party movement. With declining hopes in the Republican Party and the total failure of the Draft Bobby Kennedy movement, Lowenstein's idea...
...speaker at his annual Al Smith Memorial Dinner. In 1948 the man on the dais was Thomas Dewey; in 1952 he was Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1960 John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon shared the honors, evidence of the cardinal's neutrality. As a subtle behind-the-scenes mover, Spellman was the equal of any of his guests, and-if he had not donned the clerical collar-might very well have been the featured speaker himself...
...Marshall's Commission; former FDR braintruster Adolph Berle; and the presidents of Brown, Cornell, and the University of Iowa. About ten student leaders were present, including Craig, chairman of the Harvard Undergraduate Council; Strobe Talbott, chairman of the Yale Daily News; Abby Erdmann, Smith N.S.A. representative and a prime mover behind the December letter to the President; and Steven Cohen, president of the Amherst Student Council...
...Been Moved." "We're in the business of landscaping for other people," cracks Frank Allston, who has moved six times while working for General Electric's press-relations department. "We seed lawns and plant shrubbery-and then another family takes the house." Adds another constant mover: "There are three ways of assuring you'll be transferred: finish building a house, buy a new house, or have your wife pregnant...