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...Bobby Kennedy issue a joint statement calling the Harvard renegades "soft." "I'm going to send my boys to a school with guts, not some place run by some kind of Hindu nut," Kennedy says. Nehru breaks relations with the U.S., calling Kennedy a "racist," and Ambassador Galbraith a "beanpole." ...Cardinal Cushing wins the Irish sweepstakes and endows a home for old policemen. President Pusey calls Cushing "a great cardinal," and suggests that they hold an "ecumenical summit...
...troops across the Goan frontier. Both the U.S. and the U.N. rushed to head off the impending conflict. In an ironic reversal of roles, Nehru, who savors the part of international peacemaker, found himself on the opposite side of the table. U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith four times tried to talk Nehru out of taking military action; Nehru was not listening. Replying to U.N. Acting Secretary-General U. Thant's appeal that India and Portugal negotiate their differences, Nehru said: "It is hardly possible to negotiate with a government that takes its stand on 16th century concepts...
Twice last week U.S. Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith pleaded with Nehru to settle the dispute by mediation, but the Indian's insistence that Portugal would first have to announce its intention to withdraw from Goa clearly ruled out any likelihood of negotiations. Goa's governor general calmly ordered the evacuation of women and children. Said he: "If necessary, we will die here...
...Puritans, on the other hand, argue that U.S. consumer wants are sated and that the only hope of reviving demand "is through the advertising agencies-discovery of new gimmicks, creating new wants, fostering obsolescence, etc." (But some Puritans, McMahon adds wryly, "primly reject this lifeline, preferring, like Professor Galbraith, no growth at all to being dragged up by the hucksters...
...tower idealism has also been pierced by a new sense of realism in world affairs. Russia's violence and Red China's aggressions have left him no illusions about Communism's world ambitions. Thanks largely to able U.S. ambassadors, including Kennedy-appointed John Kenneth (Affluent Society) Galbraith, Nehru has gained new understanding of U.S. aims. Says he: "As far as we are concerned, there are no problems between India...