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Last year the annual honorary skirmish was enlivened when Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 and John Kenneth Galbraith complained that the University honored too many Republicans and too few "liberal Democrats." According to the two professors, "No Democratic Governor of the Commonwealth has received an honorary degree for many decades, and no Republican Governor has failed to receive one." With Galbraith playing viceroy in India and Schlesinger glued to the White House TV set, President Pusey may go out on a limb this year and name Gov. Volpe--a Republican...
...with big plans donned top hat and swallow-tailed coat and, surrounded by an escort of sword-bearing Indian guards, called at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi. U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, a shade under 7 ft. tall in his topper (6 ft. 8 in. without it), could hardly have picked a more propitious moment to meet with Indian officials: the U.S. was about to offer $1 billion for basic development projects over the next two years if the other members of the "Aid to India Club," Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan, matched the contribution...
When it comes to exhorting his fellow citizens to do something for their country, no problem is too small for President John F. Kennedy. Upon hearing that Peter Galbraith, 10, son of Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, was reluctant to leave Cambridge for New Delhi, Kennedy ripped off a letter recalling his own family's uprooting after his father took over the London embassy. Informed that Peter was an animal lover, the President pointed out India's "fascinating possibilities (although I gather that cobras have to be handled professionally)," encouraged the lad to think of himself...
...arrogance of John Kenneth Galbraith! Apparently he feels that the American people are capable of earning the national income, but incapable of intelligently spending what they earn. One wonders if the no-fins-no-foibles Mr. Galbraith takes issue with Mother Nature for creating wasteful flowers instead of plain, public-sector grass...
Kennedy nominees bound for New Frontier outposts as ambassadors: India: John Kenneth Galbraith, 52, Harvard economics professor, veteran Kennedy brain-truster, author of The Affluent Society. A big-picture thinker of considerable stature (6 ft. 8 in.), Galbraith has, since the inauguration, been making himself useful in Washington as a word man, supplying Kennedy speeches and other New Frontier documents with what he describes as "touches of the cosmetic or the cosmic." Ceylon: Frances Elizabeth Willis. 60, currently Ambassador to Norway. Stanford Ph.D. ('23) Frances Willis was the Foreign Service's first career woman to become an ambassador...