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...prefers the carrot to the stick in his operations, O'Brien uses the power of the presidency sparingly. Time and again, congressional leaders have urged him to recommend that President Kennedy intervene directly in legislative matters. Time and again, O'Brien has refused, acting only in crucial cases when a presidential telephone call or White House talk with a key Congressman is most timely and can be most effective...
...Allen, Jr. For years, Allen has tried to get the city's schools fiscally free, politically sanitized and decentralized, with more power going to the 54 presently impotent local boards. For weeks, he has urged the top board to clean house or quit. Asked by Governor Rockefeller to recommend action, Allen called for a special session of the legislature to organize an interim school board, appointed by the State Board of Regents, and set up an advisory council of leading citizens to fill the school board with "the nine best men in New York City...
...Rabbi Kaplan was so miserable with the hidebound orthodoxy of his first congregation (Manhattan's Kehilath Jeshurun) that he asked the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary to recommend him to a life insurance company as salesman. He was persuaded to stick it out. and instead of insurance, he has been selling his own conception of Judaism ever since. It has been a long pull; Mordecai Kaplan was feted by 600 well-wishers last week on his 80th birthday. And his conception of Judaism has grown into a thriving movement: Reconstructionism...
...British Foreign Office, which never willingly misses a chance to turn personal friendships to diplomatic advantage, last week announced that come fall. David Ormsby-Gore will become Britain's Ambassador to the U.S. Scarcely a year younger than Kennedy. Ormsby-Gore had other qualities to recommend him. Although his record as Conservative Member of Parliament for eleven years' standing is not remarkable, he has shown skill and application in the field of diplomacy. He has been Britain's alternate delegate at the U.N. for the past 2½ years and its top negotiator at the Geneva nuclear...
High Priest Buddharakitha was clearly a man who was more interested in power than religion. In 1956, when Bandaranaike was running for election, Buddharakitha organized the United Monks' Front, which went scuttling off to the hustings to recommend Banda and his Freedom Party, on the grounds that Banda promised to give Buddhism its "rightful place" in Ceylon and to make Sinhala, the tongue spoken by most Ceylonese Buddhists, the official language of the land...