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Blundering Theorist. For five years Minister of Interior Vallenilla Lanz, 45, had been Perez Jimenez' chief flatterer, political soothsayer and official philosopher. Suave, well educated (at Paris' Sorbonne) and bookish, Minister Vallenilla mixed ideas from Mussolini, Thorstein Veblen and the U.S. fad of technocracy into a theory justifying dictatorship as the happiest state for Venezuelans. In working out what he called a "New National Ideal," Francophile, anticlerical Vallenilla Lanz led the dictator into many a blunder. One was December's unpalatable yes-or-no plebiscite for a second five-year term. Another was a conflict with...
David Riesman '31, professor of Social Science at the University of Illinois and another leading theorist of general education, and Scott Buchanan, a former dean at St. John...
Caldwell, highly regarded throughout the country as both a coach and a leading theorist of the single-wing formation, was granted a medical leave of absence for the remainder of the season in order to recuperate from a lingering infection of the intestinal track "that could lead to complications...
Citation: "As practitioner, historian, and theorist in the field of international relations, he has devoted himself to the strengthening of our international position through the exercise of informed and enlightened statesmanship...
Died. Mosha Pijade, 67, top Tito lieutenant for 20 years, leading theorist of Titoism, President of Yugoslavia's Federal People's Assembly; of a heart attack; in Paris, on his way home from a diplomatic mission to London...