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...Review voted last Friday to post-pone implementation of the program if the faculty accepts the general principle of affirmative action...
Vice President Johnson's ties to the Kennedy White House were strained. Bobby and others on J.F.K.'s staff dismissed him as "Uncle Corn Pone." There is much evidence, however, that John Kennedy sincerely liked Lyndon and went out of his way to stroke his ego. There were, for example, those raucous fact-finding trips through Asia and India during which Johnson spurned State Department advice to avoid shaking hands with the unwashed masses. Nothing released his old progressive juices better than a crowd of impoverished farmers waiting for the word...
...political emergency brings out the corn-pone opinion in fine force-the one which can't bear to be outside the pale, can't bear to be in disfavor, can't endure the averted face and the cold shoulder, wants to stand well with his friends, wants to be smiled upon, wants to be welcome.-Mark Twain...
...deteriorating relationship between the world's two superpowers sank to alarming depths. In the U.S., both houses of Congress overwhehnhigly adopted resolutions deploring the trials and the Soviet denial of human rights. Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson urged, in vain, that Secretary of State Vance should post! pone his trip to Geneva for a SALT conference with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (see following story), lest the willingness to continue negotiations be interpreted as "the wrong signal at the wrong time." His fellow Senator Daniel Moynihan said that "to send Vance to Geneva is to participate in the butchery...
...from affecting bankerly reserve, Miller roars with laughter at his own often corn-pone jokes, some directed at the august but arcane institution that he heads. He has invented a mythical poll in which 23% of the U.S. population thought the Federal Reserve was an Indian reservation, 26% judged it to be a wildlife preserve and 51% identified it as a brand of whisky. Most important, he speaks almost garrulously in tones of unabashed can-do optimism. The nation, he insists, can bring down its frightening rate of inflation without suffering another recession?indeed, while working toward a "model economy...