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...pose as a farm expert. I expressed a sincere desire to learn." A chief author of the Kennedy Administration program was in fact ex-Professor Willard Cochrane, Freeman's director of agricultural economics, former member of the University of Minnesota faculty, and a farm brain-truster under the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations...
After acting as the New Frontier's savvy liaison man with the outgoing Administration, Washington Attorney Clark Clifford was hired last week by the General Electric Co. Duty of the onetime top Truman brain-truster: advising the company on the multi-million-dollar damage claims resulting from February's antitrust convictions...
Kennedy nominees bound for New Frontier outposts as ambassadors: India: John Kenneth Galbraith, 52, Harvard economics professor, veteran Kennedy brain-truster, author of The Affluent Society. A big-picture thinker of considerable stature (6 ft. 8 in.), Galbraith has, since the inauguration, been making himself useful in Washington as a word man, supplying Kennedy speeches and other New Frontier documents with what he describes as "touches of the cosmetic or the cosmic." Ceylon: Frances Elizabeth Willis. 60, currently Ambassador to Norway. Stanford Ph.D. ('23) Frances Willis was the Foreign Service's first career woman to become an ambassador...
Flying back into Washington after three weeks in Latin America, Kennedy Brain-truster Arthur Schlesinger Jr. had cheery tidings. During his six-country tour with the President's Food for Peace mission, Schlesinger had found that support for Castro was fading fast among Latin American statesmen, labor leaders and intellectuals, even though he still has student support. "A year ago." said Schlesinger, "Castro struck many Latin Americans as a symbol of social change. Now he seems to them a symbol of a Communist bridgehead in the hemisphere...
...Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. Symington's five-man team flew to Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador to offer grain, seed and other surplus foodstuffs as inducements to get to work on land-reform programs. Other stops: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. McGovern. traveling with Brain-Truster Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (along as Kennedy's personal representative), visited food-exporting Argentina to reassure it that the giveaway program is not intended to harm normal markets. "A man who's starving and not in a position to buy food isn't considered a commercial customer," said McGovern...