Word: rostow
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Because of illness, Eugene V. Rostow, dean of the Yale Law School, will not participate in the Law School Forum tonight. Discussing "The Organized Bar and Social Reform," at 8:30 p.m. In Rindge Tech Auditorium will be Vern Countryman, dean of the New Mexico University Law School. Walter Craig, president of the American Bar Association. Morris Ernst, an attorney, and Erwin N. Griswold, dean of the Law School...
...Kennedy Administration's foreign policy is less ambitious than liberation, more positive than containment. Walt Whitman Rostow, head of the State Department's policy planning board, sums it up like this: "We seek to build a community of independent nations, their governments increasingly responsive to the consent of the governed, cooperating of their own free will in their areas of interdependence, settling their disputes by peaceful means. On the basis of this kind of community of free nations, we seek by every means at our disposal compatible with our own security and that of other free nations...
...Rostow, now one of the New Frontier's fulltime advisers, remarked to Presidential Aspirant John Kennedy: "I know what the first words of your acceptance speech should be: 'This country is ready to get moving again and I'm ready to lead it.' " Kennedy liked the theme, if not the precise wording. After he won the Democratic nomination, he tried it out in several versions. It achieved its most memorable form in a speech in Seattle on Sept. 6: "I pledge you an Administration that will get this country moving again." The phrase became Kennedy...
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Walt Rostow, the State Department's head policy planner, discusses new plans for global defense...
...names of some apparatus members: "I think our country is entitled to the names of these people because, according to this statement, they are traitors and ready to let this country go over to the enemy." Walker named of State Dean Rusk and State Department Counselor Walt Whitman Rostow as "people who appear to think the same lines as the apparatus." All in all, it was a shoddy and confused display of name-calling without evidence. Senators of all persuasions, saddened by the performance, forbore to question him hard. Upon leaving the hearing room. Walker paused long enough to throw...