Word: statesmanly
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Adam Yarmolinsky, 40, is the elder statesman of the Whiz Kids. Short and unobtrusive in appearance, he is special assistant to McNamara and Deputy Secretary of Defense. He won grudging respect from the military recently by taking an unscheduled parachute jump with an Army Special Forces group he was inspecting ("It just seemed to be the thing to do"). He graduated from Harvard and Yale Law School, was once a clerk to retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed. Less a specialist than most Whiz Kids, he is a keen troubleshooter with a fluent pen and an eye for extracting...
President Kennedy's favorite book concerns a British statesman who made a policy of keeping his country at a standstill for close to a decade and boasting of it. Issued now in paperback, this famed biography of Lord Melbourne makes plain that he was one of the most indecisive, lackadaisical and delightful persons ever to run a country...
...Room, there will be another informal meeting for Harvard Summer School students with members of the International Seminar. Maximo Solivan of the Phillipines will discuss any topic concerning Asia. Solivan is publisher and a columnist for the Manila Evening News. Sachchidanandaz Sahay, Acting Chief Sub-Editor of the Calcutta Statesman will talk on the "Press in India...
Effective Effulgence. Occidental's boss is veteran (since 1946) President Arthur G. Coons. 62. an Oxy alumnus ('20) and a Penn-educated economist. A noted educational statesman, Coons was chairman of the committee that worked out California's new "Master Plan" for public higher education-a plan for expansion that makes life more perilous than ever for California's private campuses, especially for those as small...
...Moscow itself. One restrained critic was Canon Lewis John Collins of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, a leading British unilateral disarmer who was accompanied on the trip from London by such other ban-the-bombers as anti-American Pundit Kingsley Martin, ex-editor of the New Statesman and Nation, and Physicist John D. Bernal, a Lenin Peace Prize winner. Collins received a hostile reception when he coupled criticism for the "wickedness" of U.S. nuclear tests with Moscow's "grave error" in becoming the first nation to resume tests last fall. A professor of political science from...