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...Directors, Monro said that he had hoped for about 30-40 new money-making schemes a year for the HSA, a clearing house that provides facilities and capital for new ventures. A Director of the Office of Financial Aids in the spring of 1958, Monro was a prime mover in creating the HSA amid complaints that it would kill independent initiative and compete with Harvard Square merchants or existing undergrduate organizations...
...able, aggressive New Orleans lawyer, Frank Ellis, 54, came to Washington with a reputation for getting things done. Back in Louisiana, he had masterminded the financing of the 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. He was a leading mover and shaker in the construction of New Orleans' Moisant International Airport, and, as a fortissimo music lover as well as civic leader, he helped spark a fund-raising drive that saved the New Orleans Opera. He earned his claim to a job in the new Administration by belligerently and successfully managing Kennedy's Louisiana campaign last year, in the teeth...
...began working on his first million and met James Forrestal, later to become the first Defense Secretary. In 1932 Nitze married Phyllis Pratt, granddaughter of a founder of Standard Oil. After wartime service as an economist, Nitze began a brilliant career in State. In 1948 he was prime mover of the group that took the general ideas of Secretary George Marshall and whipped them into the practical program that became the Marshall Plan. In 1950, as director of State's Policy Planning Staff in the Dean Acheson regime, he was calling for a buildup of U.S. military strength months...
Brawn & Brains. Prime mover of Ohio State is All-America Center Jerry ("Luke") Lucas, 20, an implacable giant (6 ft. 8 in., 228 Ibs.) who has the sure, smooth grace of a lean Texas cowpoke. Lucas not only tops Ohio State in scoring average (25.5 points) but is a deft playmaker who feeds easy baskets to breaking teammates, leads the nation in the bruising battle for rebounds (16 per game). Cracks Coach Fred Taylor: "If Luke ever gets hurt, somebody will have to hide all the razor blades around my house...
...Professor Neustadt (who was added permanently to the Kennedy staff last week as an adviser on the structure and operations of Government). In practice, it rests on the President's determination to get things done-and his belief that in politics, power is the prime, even the only, mover of events...