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John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, declared he prefers John F. Kennedy '40 for President, in a poll of 54 men and women published by Esquire this week. Only one of six other Harvard professors stating their Presidential choices agreed with Galbraith.
The most radical works on the program were not too successful, it is true but, even here, Mr. Senturia is to be heartily congratulated for his determination not only to present them but to present them as well as he did with an undergraduate orchestra. Those who let the program...
Labelling the choices listed on the questionnaire as "absolutely ridiculous," several other 'Cliffies wrote in a third alternative--extending the closing hour till 11 with reserve books to circulate at 4:30. Most of the write-in voters questioned the "financial reasons" which the poll cited as precluding this possibility...
C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, supported Kennedy along with Galbraith and three others. Brinton framed the major issue of the times as: "orthodox or 'classical' economics, and what I'll call Keynesian or Galbraithian economics: . . . whether we are to let our present methods of...
Although he did not name a Presidential favorite, David Riesman '34, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, warned against the contemporary political complacency. "I feel along with many people that the current American assumption that there can be 'politics as usual' in the year of the atom bomb does...