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...Dean Baker has been trying to add three endowed professorships a year. He has been successful in this effort in each of the past two years. Last year there were added the Royal Little Professorship of Business Administration, the George Gund Professorship of Commercial Banking, and the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professorship of Managerial Economics, the latter, however, a joint professorship with the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...tung's dictum, "There is no profound difference between the farmer and the soldier," underlies the special problems created by guerrilla warfare. The U.S. is not deliberately trying to destroy and demoralize civilians; it is guerrilla tactics and terror that attempt this. Writes Dr. Paul Ramsey, professor of Christian ethics at Princeton: "If the guerrilla chooses to fight between, behind and over peasants, women and children, is it he or the counterguerrilla who has enlarged the legitimate target and enlarged it so as to bring unavoidable death and destruction upon a large number of innocent people...
...would result from a Communist take over? Who can really count future casualties in Viet Nam and weigh them against the casualties of another war that might have to be fought later in Thailand? These are agonizing questions, on which decent men can reach different conclusions. Even, says Professor Ramsey, if the conflict in South Viet Nam itself were to destroy "more values than there is hope of gaining, one must not forget that there are more values and securities and freedoms" to be reckoned with beyond Viet Nam-in Asia and elsewhere in the world...
...assembled a galaxy of such Administration stars as Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, Budget Director Charles Schultze, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Acting Attorney General Ramsey Clark. He threw a big barbecue luncheon on the lawn. He set up a full-scale press conference and, with typical attention to statistics, reeled off a count of all the times that he has been in touch with Governors since he became President-400 personal talks, 200 phone calls...
...watchers will have to see it to believe it. Even so, a change in the court's composition may be coming. Along with the aging Black and Douglas, Chief Justice Warren is 76; Justices Clark and Harlan are 67. And the word is that Clark's son Ramsey may become Attorney General (once his father's post). If that happens, Clark might consider resigning in order to avoid any suggestion of impropriety in his sitting on Justice Department cases. Thus far, President Johnson has appointed only Justice Abe Fortas; the odds are that he will soon...