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...Tempting Thievery." Instead of bold new ideas and personal diplomacy. Dean Rusk plans to bring to the foreign relations of the U.S. thoroughgoing staff work, precision and forethought. He believes that precision is needed to forestall miscalculation by enemies and friends. While he was a student in Germany in the summer of 1932, he likes to relate, a canoe that he had left unguarded was stolen. Police went after the thief, but a magistrate fined Rusk for "tempting thievery." In its foreign relations, says Rusk, the U.S. must be careful not to "tempt thievery" by failing to let the Communists...
...poor man's Princeton"), where he majored in political science. At Davidson, he recalls, he "never stopped running." Between classes, he ran to and from a $50-a-month job in a local bank, waited on boardinghouse tables in exchange for meals, got elected president of the student Y.M.C.A., became captain of the campus R.O.T.C., and won a Phi Beta Kappa key. Mindful that Rhodes scholarship selection committees take athletics into account. Dean Rusk went out for track, tennis, baseball and basketball...
...Edward Day, 46. The least known of Kennedy's Cabinet choices. Ed Day, 46, is a light-haired, witty insurance lawyer and a side ring operator in the three-ring circus that is California Democratic politics. Born in Jacksonville. Ill., Ed Day was brilliant enough as a law student to become editor of the Harvard Law Review (1936-37). After graduation, he went to work in one of Chicago's biggest, best law firms (Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Harper), married Mary Louise Burgess, the boss's daughter. At work he became fast friends with a partner...
...purpose of the conference, sponsored by the National Student Association, is to bring together the Algerian refugees who are studying at American universities and get them to know each other...
...tutor said that in his section "reactions are mixed, but they are all rather curious to see what is going to happen." An Ec 98 student commented, "This is going to mean hard work...