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...Sunday. Mac joined the Government via a more circuitous route. After the war he helped Stimson write his fine memoirs, On Active Service in Peace and War, joined the Harvard faculty in 1949 as a lecturer. Within four years he became the first Yale-educated dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, one of the top jobs in U.S. education...
Kennedy made Mac his chief aide on national security. Operating out of the west wing of the White House, he funnels important reports to the President, sees him half a dozen times a day. Partly because he owes no political debt to Kennedy, partly because the two are temperamentally alike in their appreciation of power and their delight in decision making, their relationship is frank and unstrained. Kennedy has no Sherman Adams, but Bundy is one of the handful of men who comprise an informal general staff for the President...
...until well into the final period did Harvard really come close to increasing its lead. Mac O'Malley, lying on the ground in front of the Indian nets, drove through an amazing shot,' only to have it nullified on the freak call of "dangerous play...
...Fleet Street Tuesday night, the early morning headlines were already in type: MAC WILL CARRY ON. The news, leaked to parliamentary correspondents on the eve of the Conservative Party's annual conference in seaside Blackpool, was that Harold Macmillan had told his Cabinet ministers he felt compelled to stay on as Prime Minister unless they could reach virtually unanimous agreement on his successor...
...doubt that he planned to attend the conference and make the traditional leader's speech on Saturday afternoon. With the announcement of the illness, it suddenly became clear to the solid, well-tailored men and tweedy women, who had been engrossed in highly un-Toryish wrangling between Mac-must-go and Mac-must-stay factions, that Mac would...