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...leaving his intellectual home base. Equally restricting is the strong tradition in the Nieman program, which results in enrollment by Fellows in courses that have been popular in previous years. The standard "Nieman courses" at the present time are Merle Fainsod's course on the Soviet Union and Robert McCloskey's on constitutional...
Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, labelled as "old and rather crude" the idea that "where annual elections end, tyranny begins. There has been a growing recognition that the two-year term tradition is nonsense," he said yesterday. "No one now seriously thinks that a legislature elected every four years is any more tyrannical than one elected twice as often," he commented...
Finally, State Department Spokesman Robert McCloskey admitted that the U.S. had indeed rejected U Thant's suggestions for a conference-through Secretary of State Dean Rusk, not McNamara. McCloskey's unfortunately worded comment was that "we saw nothing to indicate that Hanoi was prepared for peace talks, and the Secretary of State said he would recognize it when it came. His antenna is sensitive...
Kissinger, who is taking a sabbatical leave this year, left the country Friday and will remain in Vietnam until November 10, Robert L. McCloskey, State Department press officer, said this weekend. McCloskey would not speculate on Kissinger's duties but said he would be directly responsible to Ambassador Lodge...
When it came to a number of other embarrassing aspects, though, the majority got out its brushes. Veteran Democratic Fund Raiser Matthew H. McCloskey, for example, had been accused of deliberately overpaying Maryland Insurance Man Don B. Reynolds $35,000 for writing a performance bond on the $20 million District of Columbia Stadium that McCloskey's firm was building. McCloskey claimed that it was only a bookkeeping goof, but Reynolds testified that $25,000 of the money was illegally channeled into the Democrats' 1960 presidential campaign fund through Baker. Generously, the committee found McCloskey's testimony "candid...