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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...
...sharp example of Europe's mood came last week when Walt Whitman Rostow, chairman of the State Department's policy planning board, journeyed to Paris to explain Washington's new economic boycott of Fidel Castro's Cuba to the NATO Council-and to urge the U.S.'s allies to impose similar bans on shipments of strategic goods to Havana. Rostow's motives were harshly criticized. Asked the Dutch: Why should we embargo sales of arms to Castro when the U.S. is furnishing Indonesia's Sukarno with guns? Headlined the London Times sarcastically...
...coed group of New Frontiersmen (among them: Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric), Bobby last month set up weekly night-school seminars presided over by Presidential Aide (and ex-Harvard historian) Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and State Department Counselor (and ex-M.I.T. economist) Walt Whitman Rostow. Dubbed "Hickory Hill University" after Bobby's McLean, Va., estate, the seminars involve homework of one book a week, and Rostow, exercising a professor's traditional prerogative, promptly assigned his own Emergence of Nations. Equally promptly. Bobby's wife Ethel exercised a student's traditional right...
Some of the transfers can be viewed as simple reflections of Kennedy's original intontions. Moving Walt W. Rostow, whom McCloskey described as another "idea man," over to the State Department fits in with the President's early plans for him in that part of the Government, for example...