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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THE ATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* "The Highest Fall of All" has Stuart Whitman as a Hollywood stuntman trying to stay alive through a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge while his wife, played by Joan Hackett, tries to kill herself in the bathtub. Repeat...
...around Hanoi and Haiphong was vital to the U.S. war effort. Now that the President has accepted that approach-also urged on him by the Joint Chiefs of Staff-the insistent adviser's influence in the Ad ministration's inner circle has increased considerably. The man: Walt Whitman Rostow, 49, the garrulous, determined special assistant who three months ago inherited part of McGeorge Bundy's job at the White House...
...never been easy. Nearly 100 years ago, Walt Whitman, in his eccentric language, urged America to "eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables." The myths and fables, the romantic dreams as well as the shrewd half truths of colonial times, firmly established a belief in the impenetrable differentness of Asia. The situation was not helped by the fact that Asia itself had produced strikingly little written history. Today growing numbers of Americans have firsthand knowledge of how Asians think and feel, act and react -even though such knowledge is always beset by the danger of oversimplification. Diplomats, soldiers, businessmen, journalists...
Cedric H. Whitman '43, professor of Greek and Latin, will become the first Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature next fall. Whitman has taught at Harvard since...
...Cabinet, Johnson named hard-driving Robert E. Kintner, 56, who just three months ago left his $200,000-a-year job as president of the National Broadcasting Co. (after a well-muffled company dispute). Less surprisingly but no less provocatively, he named as a special presidential assistant Walt Whitman Rostow, 49, a Kennedy-picked M.I.T. economic history professor who served as a White House aide before but left in 1961 to become a State Department policymaker because he did not get along with McGeorge Bundy...