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...enrolled in McCloskey's course and wrote his paper on James F. Byrnes, former Supreme Court Justice from South Carolina. He audited Fainsod's course and Galbraith's Economics 169. "Galbraith interests me because many of the problems in underdeveloped countries are the same ones we have in South Carolina," he said...
John Kenneth Galbraith...
...sending Galbraith as his ambassador to New Delhi, Kennedy deliberately chose a man who could be depended upon to bring to Indian problems his own mixture of sympathy and irony. Kennedy was delighted by Galbraith's wit, effrontery and unabashed pursuit of the unconventional wisdom, and they were now exceptionally good friends. Nor did the President appear to mind Ken's guerrilla warfare against the ikons and taboos of the Department of State. From time to time, the President took pleasure in announcing that Galbraith was the best ambassador...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Faculty of Design, have been elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, an organization modeled on the European academies, which honors outstanding achievement in music, literature...
...Galbraith, who was elected to the Department of Literature, was called "a distinguished economist and social historian." Sert, elected to the Department of Art, was cited for "his major contribution to the development of modern architecture...