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...were the first real tip-off to the temper of Chairman Cary, 50, a Yaleman ('31) and onetime (1938-40) SEC counsel, who was plucked from his job as a Columbia law professor by President Kennedy last February to head the SEC. A Phi Beta Kappa with a staunch New Deal background, Cary served with the OSS in Rumania and Yugoslavia during World War II. No stranger to the Wall Street whirl, he worked part time during his Columbia days as special counsel to a Wall Street law firm...
...committee was plainly cool. Even its chairman and longtime foreign aid champion, Arkansas' J. W. Fulbright, warned that there must be reforms: "We have had too many examples of countries in which our aid programs have been corrupted." Another staunch aid advocate, Wisconsin's Republican Alexander Wiley, observed: "This matter of foreign aid will have to be resold to the American people." Oregon's Wayne Morse put it more bluntly: "I don't think the American economy can stand this program." And Vermont's Republican George Aiken was downright unkind: "I see no sign that...
...extent and versatility of your brilliant accomplishments have been reflected in . . . resourceful and imaginative innovations in journalism, bold and critical interpretations of free enterprise, staunch and articulate advocacy of the creative arts...
...Washington night as crack armed forces drill teams wheeled and countermarched on the floodlit White House lawn. From a bal cony watched President John F. Kennedy, and at his side was a welcome guest: Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, 57, the father of his young country and a staunch friend of the West...
Once an outspoken Democrat, Reagan is now a staunch Republican, has developed into a remarkably active spokesman for conservatism. Out of the movies for the past four years, he has become a traveling ambassador for General Electric (he hosts TV's General Electric Theater), spends much of his time carrying conservatism's gospel to audiences across the nation. Reagan's thesis: "Too many people today are inclined to depend on a centralized Government to furnish the answer to all our problems...