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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Question: "Did you make good grades?" Answer: "Well, I believe I was relatively close to the dean's list part of the time." Question: "Could you estimate where you stood in your class from the top or the bottom?" Answer: "No, sir, I never checked on that." Fulbright, Rhodes scholar and onetime president of his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, was incredulous. Asked he: "You weren't interested in trying to learn?" (In fact, Yale does not rank its students...
...Whitney determine to let you out of the paper?" Reid said he himself had made the decision, so as to give Whitney complete freedom of action. Sneered Fulbright: "I don't see how that proves your efficiency as a director of the paper when as part of that deal you are leaving the paper...
Harry Truman vowed not to repeat his 1956 tactical error, when he waited until the nominating convention itself to go all out for New York's Averell Harriman, was too late to get more than two dozen votes (out of 1,372) off the Stevenson bandwagon. For his part, Rayburn was prepared to work in the open long before convention time. But his critical role will come if, as expected, he mounts the podium at Los Angeles in July 1960 to become, for the fourth time running, permanent convention chairman. Master of floor strategy and impervious to shouts...
...label the West Germans as neo-Nazi warmongers. Although both East and West Germans had been admitted to the conference at separate tables only as "advisers," the Russians demanded that the speeches of Lothar Bolz, East Germany's pompous, vitriol-spewing Foreign Minister, be published as part of the official conference record. (Refusing, the conference secretariat noted that the question was one on which there was "permanent disagreement.") And at the week's first formal session, Gromyko, who was chairman, broke an implicit promise to let Secretary of State Christian Herter speak first by unexpectedly recognizing Bolz...
...Fund for the Republic after Congress in 1953 resolved to abolish all Indian reservations as soon as possible. The commission's job is to visit the Indians and see if they are ready to be integrated into society. This work naturally takes the professor away from Cambridge part of the time...