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...McGregor Burns, professor of Political Science at Williams College; Norman Greenwald of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandies University; Paul T. Heffron, professor Government and chairman of the Department of Government at Boston University; Earl Latham, '30 professor of Government at Amherst College; John N. Plank '45, professor of Latin American Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and Robert C. Wood, professor of Political Science at M.I.T...
Captain Robert Se'mer, 40, of Falls Church, Va., a Navy jet pilot, was walking with two companions along 47th Street near Third Avenue one evening when a high wind whipped a plank from a nearby building under construction. The plank crashed down on him and severed his right...
...dogmatically Marxist, but fiercely, and defensively, anti-Russian. The party offers only one plank, "unconditional surrender of capitalism." Unlike the Socialist Party of Norman Thomas ("a petty, bourgois reform party," says Gilfedder) the SLP refuses to compromise with capitalism in the quest for social reform. As a senator, Gilfedder would not vote for social security, unemployment compensation or Medicare. For to the SLP, social welfare is only a means of bolstering the capitalist order...
Aside from Beer, the only other Harvard faculty member taking an active part in the Kennedy campaign is John Plank, Assistant Professor of Government, and an expert on Latin America who accompanied Kennedy on a whirlwind tour South of the border in the latter part...
...Threat. For all his dedication to rubber. Sir John has been a leader in the move to diversify Malaya's economic base and has planted tea and palms (for oil) on one-fifth of Guthrie's acreage. "Malaya's heavy reliance on rubber is the weak plank in its economy," he says...