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JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, 53, bestselling controversialist (The Affluent Society), Harvard economics professor and sometime speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy. Canadian-born Galbraith has had half a dozen Government jobs, since 1956 has compiled searching surveys of India's economy, and is now Ambassador to India...
...Galbraith thought the Goa matter should be dropped, argued that further U.S. censure of India was futile and would only make the Indians tougher to deal with on other issues. He sent off a critical telegram to the State Department when his old friend and sometime political hero, Adlai Stevenson, made a U.N. speech that sharply censured India's action. But Galbraith himself does not hesitate to criticize the Indians for their often inconsistent positions. Citing U.S. intervention against the Trujillos, Galbraith felt that the U.S. received little credit for a courageous
...succeeding in the Congo and has failed in Goa. This is a decent average, and Lord Home should not be so quick to criticize. He should worry, as Adlai Stevenson has done, about how to strengthen the UN executive, so that there is a possibility of its acting consistently for peace...
...Enterprise. The Mitropoulos Competition offered a first prize of $5.000, as compared with the $3,000 offered by Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours and the $2,500 won by Cliburn in the Tchaikovsky Competition. The scope of the competition was all the more remarkable, said U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson in a final-night address, because the Mitropoulos contest gets no Government support. The competition is completely supported by private contributions-the first and second prizes were donated by Philip Morris International and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation...
These days, there is only one small sign that Romagna's pen is slowly tiring: the old nightmare has given way to a daydream in which Adlai Stevenson is President. This latter-day reverie has nothing to do with Romagna's political preference. To him, all men, including Presidents, are measured by the quality of their syntax, platform delivery and oral timbre. Using these criteria, Romagna says Stevenson would be a cinch to transcribe. "Adlai's English was made for the shorthand system," says Jack Romagna. "It's marvelous. He has a grand command...