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...kind of advice he himself had been handing out in every international crisis created by Red aggression. He still regretted that China was not in the U.N., refused fully to equate "Communism" with China's aggression, and insisted that India was still nonaligned. U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Galbraith soothingly agreed, explained that Western arms aid did not mean that India must join any entangling military alliances...
...Britain played along. After loading at arms depots in West Germany and Turkey, U.S. transport planes headed for India with automatic weapons, heavy mortars and mountain howitzers. British transports brought in Bren and Sten guns. France promised arms and helicopters. In New Delhi, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Galbraith hailed the airlift of arms, but warned, "I hope no one will imagine they will work magic,'' because "the great task remains with the Indian army...
...somewhat smaller group of professors who also signed the advertisement. have since the primary publicly switched their allegiance to the man who defeated McCormack, Edward M. Kennedy '54. Among this group are Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government; Virginia L. Galbraith, a professor of Economics at Amherst College; and James McGregor Burns, a professor of Political Science at Williams College...
Advertising is aimed at changing consumers' wants. Sometimes it succeeds; sometimes it does not. Insofar as it leaves our wants unchanged, it is a simple waste of money. Insofar as it changes our wants, it remains a waste, although a complex one. The point is that Professor Galbraith, Mr. Packard, Comrade Khrushchev and Chairman Mao could change our wants more and faster for much less than the $12 billion charged by Madison Avenue...
...forward with speeches, pronouncements and comments about the economy. The most conspicuous effort was President Kennedy's Yale University speech. It was the work of several minds. Sometime Harvard History Professor Arthur Schlesinger Jr., now a presidential assistant, tried several drafts. Another former Harvard professor, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (now Ambassador to India) contributed a memo. Presidential Aide Ted Sorensen, a longtime Kennedy speechwriter, put together a separate draft, which, with some sprinklings from Schlesinger and Galbraith, became the basis of the final ver sion. Kennedy himself devoted hours to rewriting the speech, and he was still jotting away...