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Galbraith reportedly agreed to accept the post at the unanimous request of the ADA nominating committee because of his deepening concern over the Vietnam war. Relations between ADA and the Administration worsened recently, after ADA vice-chairman Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 attacked the Administration's stand on Vietnam negotiations...
...hidden microphones in his studio and informers among his guests. Because he feared the telltale stench of turpentine, he gave up oils and instead painted some 1,300 watercolors on small (5-in. to 10-in.) pieces of Japanese rice paper that could easily be hidden. His wife Ada would press them flat with her iron before he hid them away in his huge "treasure chest." He called them "unpainted pictures" because he hoped some day to use them as bases for oil paintings...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 presented the annual Roosevelt Dinner Award to Mrs. Philip M. LeCompte of Newton, a former ADA chairman...
...article on the YPSL-ADA critique of Economics 1 (CRIMSON, March 4) contains an unfortunate error. According to the report, I urged these groups to go through the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee rather than air their complaints independently. I made no such statement; on the contrary, I told them that I was pleased to hear of their initiative. The HRPC neither has nor wants a monopoly on the criticism of individual courses, whole departments, or anything else. The YPSL-ADA critique seems to me a sound, carefully reasoned document, and the energy and independence that its authors have shown deserve...
...State members of the Americans for Democratic Action paid $10 each to hear Kennedy and Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, discuss the costs of the Vietnam war at the ADA's annual Roosevelt dinner...