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Utopian Stars. Expansion west to the Pacific, as Williams sees it, was an escape hatch for a country unwilling to face its problems. And when the U.S. gave out territorially, Americans greedily tried for a share of the overseas market. Even poor old Walt Whitman has to share the blame, because he applauded "personal regeneration." When confronted by a problem, Whitman walked away, as many of his heirs from Mark Twain to William Faulk ner were to do, and became "a wayfarer down the open road...
...just one of many voices, ranking no higher than primus inter pares. In deciding his policy, John Kennedy does indeed listen to Rusk; but he may just as likely turn to his squad of White House professors and kibitzers, principally to Arthur Schlesinger and McGeorge Bundy of Harvard, Walt Rostow of M.I.T. Time after time, Kennedy reaches out past Rusk to cull ideas from Paul Nitze, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; Washington Lawyer (and Truman's Secretary of State) Dean Acheson; Special Presidential Consultant Henry (The Necessity of Choice) Kissinger; Disarmament Adviser John McCloy; or Presidential...
...Among them Columnists Stewart Alsop and John Crosby, steamship-banking-airline Tycoon J. Peter Grace Jr., Princeton Dean J. Merrill Knapp, M.I.T. Professor Walt Rostow (now a White House adviser...
...Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Part of the show will be the film Nature's Half Acre, an Oscar-winning study of birds, plants and insects in their seasonal changes...
...Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Wonders of the water worlds, caught by Disney's photographers...