New Frontier Days
Stillman, Whit
Whit Stillman NEW FRONTIER DAYS A Camelot memoir. I wo decades have passed since a Dallas, Texas, assassin's bullet brought to an end the presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and with it the...
...I'm concerned that our friends might be seriously offended when they find out that we couldn't keep them...
...Throughout Georgetown, Cleveland Park, Silver Spring, and McLean in the weeks immediately before and after Christmas, impromptu parties were thrown to dispose of the consumables...
...On the walls were inscribed photographs, framed letters, frames enclosing a letter and a photo, and one enclosing a photo of a bill-signing, a pen, and a letter...
...Steel announced a series of price increases and was shortly joined by most other steel producers...
...I welcomed the prospect of returning to New York at the end of the school year...
...The singer James Taylor was there as a North Carolina doctor's son...
...While my parents' social life continued the same as before, I had begun to view it from a far more critical perspective...
...The exceptions were girls from CIA families...
...My parents were actually pleased to hear of these inquiries, as a pro-forma FBI check usually preceded any important promotion...
...The building was a maze of huge, deserted corridors on weekends...
...But, for anyone who cared to, their true identities could be triangulated easily from his descriptions...
...Otherwise Virginia Country Day encouraged an intensely "aware" attitude among its students...
...After consulting lawyers my father decided not to give District Dossier the recognition of a libel suit, which would have meant first identifying himself as "R" and then laboriously rebutting all Williamson's ridiculous charges and innuendoes...
...Activist friends of my parents took us to a meeting in Oak Bluffs of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee or SNCC- the "Non-violent" of the title later acquired threatening overtones-and afterwards to a Vineyard Haven screening of Jean-Luc Godard's movie Breathless...
...Virtually the entire Kennedy legislative program still remained to be enacted...
...R himself was an officer of the Harvard Student Union, a left-wing political group...
...Herb," an English instructor he had known at Harvard before the war, had now reappeared in a sensitive government intelligence post...
...School activities such as square dancing, previously considered "finky" and intended to be that way by the school authorities, now seemed less so...
...Barefeet were required wear among Chilmark young people in 1962...
...His pessimistic outlook was not one most of us could accept...
...6 there...
...Do not expect, therefore, the ponderous analysis and interpretation with which professional historians interlard their chronicles of past events...
...He accepted and, as was characteristic with the new administration, began work almost immediately...
...Yet somehow a whole day's living had to be packed in before an eight o'clock bedtime...
...The hard part, of course, was leaving Sarah Sheridan behind...
...Fisher left her job and the island...
...Newsweek did a special report on the radical right extremist groups...
...Finally he sought a private meeting with Secretary Dillon and Undersecretary Roosa to try to confront the tension in the department directly...
...The dark green interior is cluttered with a backrest, Kleenex box, small plaid blanket, garden implements, first-aid kit and other objects...
...I miss Ike," the front of the card read...
...Epilog Upon leaving Washington my father accepted a senior post in the international division of a well-known New York bank, soon rising to the position of Executive Vice President-International...
...Civil rights was on everyone's mind, particularly on Martha's Vineyard, where future trends were incubating and sometimes hatching...
...But my father just read and dictated replies to his correspondence, talked on the phone with political colleagues, and read the Congressional Record, things which he enjoyed doing anyway...
...The implication seemed clear...
...For me September meant advancement to a higher grade and bedtime at a more realistic hour...
...To my parents it was this atmosphere of hatred which killed Kennedy...
...Oddballs could expect regular beatings...
...For a time later that evening I sat out of view on the stairway and overheard Mr...
...It was Burns's thesis that under the present congressional system it was impossible for a liberal legislative program to gain passage- and for over eight months his thesis held...
...At the first school assembly an old man who had been Secretary of State under Truman spoke about the problems of the Cold War...
...Styles which later became national were incubating in Chilmark that summer...
...R's flaunting of this statute is an indication of his astounding disrespect for the democratic system which enacted it...
...On some Saturday mornings my father allowed us to accompany him to his Treasury office...
...Evidently Williamson's source had leaked only what could be construed as damaging to my father, the least significant part of his report...
...On the back it said: "Hell, I even miss Harry...
...Woodstock, New York May 1980-September 1983...
...Said President Kennedy in a speech: "There have always been those on the fringes of our society who have sought to escape their own responsibility by finding a simple solution, an appealing slogan or a convenient scapegoat...
...A bus brought us back from school around 4 p.m.-3 p.m...
...Individual classes raised money to "adopt" poor children in foreign countries...
...My father heard no more talk of promotions...
...From this intermediate perspective the New Frontier appeared as a series of interesting but apparently unrelated episodes and impressions...
...They were flattered, but federal rules prohibited their retain-(continued on page 45) STILLMAN/RAWSON (continued from page 28) ing the presents, although custom exempted gifts of food or liquor which could be consumed within 24 hours...
...In the new book Williamson returned to his earlier theme of corruption and Communism in the federal government, but now explicitly linked them to international finance...
...Then there were 30 million unemployed...
...From my experience in school I thought there was a simpler explanation: fourth graders tend to be really stupid...
...if not, they were far less pleased...
...I was in the front hall at Virginia Country Day waiting for my mother to pick me up to take me to the psychologist with whom I was supposed to talk about my drinking...
...After a short post-school "decompression period" and homework came the Huntley-Brinkley Report's pictorial coverage of the new administration...
...Some of what he said seemed extremely sensitive for dinner-party circulation...
...All this must be recorded-it, too, was part of the New Frontier years in Washington...
...On Christmas morning I was surprised to receive a set of oversized soldiers with unfamiliar uniforms and insignia...
...I was aware, though, that she had an awful insomnia problem...
...Weil continued to ride high...
...This should end Weil's career in government...
...It was slightly insulting to get such a juvenile present, but I suppose I was grateful for the thought behind it...
...It's terribly sad," she said...
...The decision to go there rather than to one of the superior National Cathedral-affiliated schools stemmed from my mother's conviction that country environments were healthier for young people-an idea going back to Rousseau's day...
...We'll sell the car...
...Christmas Week 1962 put my parents in a difficult situation...
...In contrast, Johnson gave protege's like Weil his full backing...
...He has accepted expensive gifts from the Communist diplomats, including lavish Christmas presents for his children...
...Weil is the only person with a motive for this, and he has access to Secret Service documents," my father confided to my mother...
...He was far more concerned about the apparent leak of his classified report on Herb (Williamson's "H") -this was a national security violation...
...However, it seemed impossible to find a "good fit" for his interests and capabilities within the upper rank of the new administration...
...Adam Yarmolinsky, the Leffingwells, and a beautiful younger woman named Polly Fisher...
...In the social arena political Washing-ton's rigid class system became bluntly apparent...
...Periodically throughout the year drives were also mounted to collect toys, food, clothing, and cash for Washington-area charities...
...Front and back bumpers carry political stickers endorsing Democrat "Morgenthau for Governor"-violating the Hatch Act's restrictions on partisan political activity by government employees...
...Promotion came quickly for my father at Treasury, as he moved from "Assistant to the Undersecretary" to "Deputy Undersecretary...
...Arthur Schlesinger commented that while Kennedy, like every President, was subjected to satirical attack, "in the domain of the radical right it all became much sicker and nastier...
...They also often entertained at home, putting me in a position to make some first-hand observations about Washington social life...
...A key part of the Treasury chapter went as follows: R, a senior official in Treasury's international operations hierarchy, has made no secret of his close relations with Communist Bloc diplomats, often joining them at their small after-parties following an evening of diplomatic receptions...
...By September, however, back in Washington, a contagion of pessimism had spread through the Administration...
...In Washington the Parents Council's Social Code emphatically warned: '' 'Going Steady' should be discouraged...
...Leffingwell had planned to play with her husband in the yacht club tennis tournament, but at the last minute could not, so Polly Fisher took her place...
...Almost the entire Kennedy legislative program remained to be enacted...
...Herb's presence in Dallas that day struck him as very odd, or, at least, extremely peculiar...
...On Tuesday, April 10th, U.S...
...What if some right-wing nut with a bomb does, too...
...At the start of the New Frontier much was said in the press about the style and sophistication the new administration was bringing to Washington...
...The rest were nonentities...
...My father's concern was that if Herb had secretly become a Communist then and remained one, he would have to be considered a security risk...
...A Capital Chronicle Coming to Washington in a junior capacity meant exclusion from firsthand experience in the daily workings of government...
...My father was anxious to be free of the Hatch Act's oppressive anti-politicking provisions, from which officials on the Assistant Secretary level and higher were exempt...
...Life magazine published a profile of a girl who at eleven years old was already "going steady...
...Ostensibly to reciprocate, R has invited the Eastern Europeans to parties in his home, where they have been free to make contact with high-level government officials...
...It was again just a question of killing time during the day until returning home to watch history unfold...
...Miss Shippen's dancing classes took on a new, more interesting dimension...
...My mother found a townhouse Whit Stillman, New York Editor of The American Spectator, has also written for the Potomac School News & Views...
...member nation by raising a miniature version of its flag when its name was called out...
...One afternoon my mother came back from a downtown shopping trip utterly shaken...
...In early January, 1964, my father was selected to lead a major trade mission aimed at expanding the level of U.S...
...The fact that H himself held a sensitive intelligence post was, he noted, strangely omitted from Dossier...
...My mother was upset at the idea of strange men poking around her car, examining the clutter inside...
...Coming from Manhattan's prestigious Lexington Avenue, my parents could not honestly be impressed by whatever sophistication Washington had gained...
...In October the Cuban missile crisis broke the school routine...
...Small new publishing concerns based primarily in the West and using such ominous-sounding imprints as Casa Liberty, Conestoga Books, Freedom Ranch Press, and Circle Wagons fed the growing hate literature...
...Not since the high point of the hate-Roosevelt enthusiasm of the mid-thirties had any president been the target of such systematic and foul vilification...
...After several months he decided that he could really accomplish more working in the private sector...
...This is a tremendous victory for President Kennedy...
...Even this gave my mother concern...
...Conservatives saw the rising divorce and other rates as evidence of the country's moral and social fabric unraveling...
...They were often included in the highly charged dinner parties given by the columnist Joseph Alsop and his wife, Susan Mary Alsop...
...A number of students were dropped off at school by their fathers on their way to work at the Central Intelligence Agency's new Langley, Virginia, headquarters nearby...
...The school we were being sent to was Virginia Country Day, across the Potomac from Georgetown...
...Meanwhile at Treasury the situation was becoming intolerable...
...I wo decades have passed since a Dallas, Texas, assassin's bullet brought to an end the presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and with it the period known as 'the New Frontier...
...At assembly on United Nations Day each middle school student was assigned to represent a U.S...
...The atmosphere was like that of London during the Blitz except that nothing happened...
...Washington, Year Two In September we returned to a still-sweltering Washington...
...Still later he would devote his energies to a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the lessening of world tensions...
...exports in key markets abroad...
...Intense bull sessions on the likelihood of nuclear war began on the bus to school, continued through recess and lunch period, and resumed on the bus trip home...
...During his college years R associated with H, whom R himself has described as "interested in the ideals of Marxism-Leninism...
...School's opening in September followed closely upon the conclusion of the tense Berlin crisis...
...That Weil had made the bulk of his fortune during five years in Texas state government was, my father felt, also open to less positive interpretation...
...Arthur Schlesinger, Theodore Sorenson, and Pierre Salinger have written the basic history of the Kennedy Administration...
...As a compromise, cards were to be sent to Democratic party activists in both districts, further swelling an already large list...
...Both men hoped to fill the next Treasury Assistant-Secretaryship to open up...
...The Unraveling One afternoon after school my mother asked my sister and me to take seats in the living room as she had some grave news to tell us...
...At least the male members of my class thought in terms of a fairlycertain ultimate victory over Communism...
...Leffingwell, pleading work, stayed in Washington over the next two weekends, his wife flew home...
...Dinner parties tended to be smaller than those for cocktails...
...Payment was at the rate of two cents for each card completed, so with over a thousand cards to be sent out, quite a bit of money was involved...
...On Friday afternoon my mother met my sister and me at the door as we returned from school...
...What most disturbed me was that my parents participated in this system rather than rebel against it...
...Williamson's sole concession to the libel laws was to identify the officials he accused of corruption or disloyalty only by a single letter of the alphabet, chosen at random...
...But the old rules did not always apply anymore...
...Made in Czechoslovakia" markings cleared up some of the mystery...
...Among the guests at a typical 1962 dinner party were Assistant Defense Secretary and Mrs...
...An April 1962 official Washington was gripped by the steel crisis...
...Luxembourg, Yugoslavia, Monaco, Nepal, and Fiji were among the countries visited...
...But it's hard to believe he could do anything so foolish...
...Capital on the Cape On Friday afternoons that summer my father was sometimes able to get a ride on the official plane to Otis Air Force Base not far from the President's Hyannisport headquarters, and then continue on to Martha's Vineyard...
...It turned out to be an invitation for him to meet with Treasury Secretary-designate Dillon before the inauguration...
...Upon his return he started interviewing for a more demanding federal assignment...
...The Marxist folk singer Peter Seeger was a member of R's college class...
...That day, three weeks after Dossier's publication, she got two parking tickets in the space of a few hours...
...Copies of James MacGregor Burns's The Deadlock of Democracy were in every living room...
...The atmosphere was one of strict informality...
...The 280mile separation was to be quite a strain, especially as neither of us would be eligible for a driver's license for years...
...My father's college acquaintance Herb rose to the third top position in the Central Intelligence Agency, finally retiring in 1975...
...The police have evidently spotted your car...
...A tense couple of days followed...
...Washington in the fall of 1961 was the capital of a Free World under siege-and the sense of challenge this inspired reached down to the elementary school level...
...The summer of 1963 also brought President Kennedy's moving "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech...
...Birchers or other right-wingers on the District police force had recognized her car from Williamson's description...
...Nearby the bells of the National Cathedral began to toll...
...My parents were abruptly dropped by the popular Eastern European diplomatic set...
...Finally he decided to mention the matter in an unofficial way to the Secret Service, which was under Treasury jurisdiction...
...Marxism seemed to offer an explanation...
...Partygoers were excessively friendly with young people passing hors d'oeuvres...
...There Dillon asked him to join the Treasury in a key international financial policy post...
...My father was considering a congressional race in 1962 but had not decided which of two New York State districts he could represent more effectively-or whether to run at all...
...Washington's power-based class system, its sterility as an urban center, a growing suspicion of the futility of politics, and weekly beatings in school had soured me on the city...
...In her bedroom she found several objects belonging to Mrs...
...Quite a few Administration officials associated with the Kennedy camp were given similar prestigious special assignments...
...The name of Tom Gimbel, who coordinated personnel matters for Johnson, began to crop up more and more often in my father's evening conversation, finally dominating it completely...
...All the events in this story not clearly of historical record are fictional...
...In fact, the United States was on the eve of an onslaught of social change...
...Cheating on homework was epidemic...
...At Virginia Country Day the Republican girls were far more attractive than their Democratic counterparts...
...Democracy in Deadlock Summer 1963...
...He attended lectures at the Fogg Art Museum...
...Books with such titles as Capital Coverup and White House Whitewash, purporting to expose corruption and treachery in the federal government, were showing up in paperback book racks...
...For members of my generation in Washington the weeknight routine was far less hectic...
...The parents of many (and possibly most) Country Day students were involved in government, politics, diplomacy, or journalism, and these tensions were brought into the classroom...
...A sensation of bloated-ness rarely left us during those days...
...An February our next-door neighbors told my parents that two FBI agents had questioned them on my parents' personal habits, such as whether they had any drinking problems, gave loud parties, or had unusual visitors...
...He died in a Chesapeake Bay boating accident later the same year...
...He was deeply disappointed by what he felt was the Kennedy camp's ineffectiveness or lack of interest in taking care of its own people...
...Their Eastern European diplomatic friends had showered them with expensive presents...
...Leffingwell had given a job in her Nantucket wicker shop to her friend Polly Fisher, who was in a difficult position financially...
...We were excited at the prospect of New Frontier Washington, although it meant sacrificing the momentum we had built up at our New York schools...
...The steel companies have backed down," she said...
...The culmination of R's audacious career has been the international financial policies of the Kennedy Administration...
...By the end of the decade the whole nation was barefoot...
...The nature of interestingness itself changed...
...It completely makes up for the Bay of Pigs...
...But to report this ran the risk of engaging in McCarthyism...
...Manhattan Prelude Late one January afternoon a little more than a week before John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the thirty-fifth President of the United States, the telephone rang in the living room of my parents' Manhattan apartment where I was watching television...
...The young presidential couple were mesmerizingly "glamorous" and, in fact, reminded me of my parents...
...On the other hand, I could watch the events of those years unfold from a more distant perspective than was possible for a Schlesinger, Salinger, Sorenson, or Bradlee, although never from the distance Fairlie attained...
...I was sad, but at the same time felt capable of handling it...
...Later when he mentioned it in conversation with someone connected with the Warren Commission, they asked him to put everything he knew about Herb into a long memorandum...
...During the Kennedy presidency even Rose Garden ceremonies became enthralling...
...The school I went to was considered by its students the hardest in New York and in fourth grade really piled on the homework...
...His wife's younger brother was Vice President of the Chemical Corn Exchange Bank...
...Wade Rawson, Jr...
...In the days that followed members of the Administration looked around for an explanation for what had happened and found one in the climate of hate fostered by the far right and associated with Dallas since a hostile crowd mobbed Lyndon Johnson there during the 1960 campaign...
...On Friday, November 22,1963, the New Frontier came to an end...
...I thought they had become real friends...
...He braced himself for possible violence...
...The Parents Council of Washington's Social Code did not even contemplate evening parties for our grade...
...In a chapter entitled "Treachery at Treasury" he gave his lengthy analysis of how the Administration's international financial policies were in the exclusive interest of the Communist Bloc countries and the big New York and London banks, with the Rockefellers, Warburgs, and Rothschilds cited by name...
...The incident had pushed her into a profound depression...
...Our relationship finally did not work out...
...Since Christmas I had shot up three inches in height and sensed that my social horizons would be broadening...
...The steel crisis success did not, as it turned out, soften the hostility of the Administration's right-wing critics...
...I'm not going to take any chances...
...That summer Mrs...
...The political context of the thirties was completely different from what it is now," he said...
...My father also saw Dossier as a sign of the growing virulence and irrationality of the country's rightist fringe...
...During the envelope-sealing phase, to avoid dehydration, we consumed huge quantities of Seven-up-Coke and Orange Crush, we found, left a tint on the envelope flaps...
...Incidents such as these were another aspect of the New Frontier period...
...Next she told us that their friends the Leffingwells were getting divorced, but out of regard for them only gave us the broadest outline of what had happened...
...Many students' fathers were staying all night at their offices in crisis-related work...
...But the first and, for a time, the only response to the book came from an entirely unexpected quarter...
...Nearly every night there was film of a Kennedy speech, news conference, bill-signing, parade, military review, or whirlwind trip...
...Several weeks later, giving some odd excuses, Mrs...
...The off-year election campaign was beginning in earnest-with Nixon running against Brown in California and Morgenthau against Rockefeller in New York...
...This caused some soul-searching...
...The group they saw most frequently included Frank and Sue Roosevelt, the Leffing-wells, Anne Post Turner of the Cincinnati newspaper family, and the columnist Charlie Balsam...
...Early in the New Frontier period my father was confronted with a difficult situation involving questions of judgment and national security...
...Weil was widely respected in Washington as a self-made man who had left profitable business interests to join the Administration...
...Leaking classified information to a crank like Williamson is something no one will defend...
...When school did open I found few surprises...
...for public school students...
...An late November and early December 1961 my sister and I undertook the biggest job of our lives up to then -addressing, stuffing, sealing, and stamping the massive batch of Christmas cards my parents were sending out that year...
...The dues-filled strongboxes class treasurers held in their desks were found looted-with the treasurers themselves sometimes suspected...
...The Administration moved to roll back the increases...
...At Social CWe-approved parties (which began for us that year) I found myself spending more and more time with Sarah Sheridan, who was always in high spirits and the only girl in the class shorter than I. In October 1963 Cameron Whittaker Williamson, the ultra right-wing author of Capital Coverup, published a successor volume, District Dossier...
...I'm surprised," my father said...
...One, Sarah Sheridan, lived nearby in Georgetown...
...In exchange for help on homework she introduced me to Top Forty music as interpreted by WEAM, the capital's leading rock 'n' roll station...
...The atmosphere was impersonal...
...On the Sunday following the assassination, examining a newspaper photo of Lee Harvey Oswald being escorted down a Dallas jailhouse corridor, my father recognized one of the bystanders as his college acquaintance "Herb...
...Then the incidents began...
...Although not politically active himself, Herb had associated with members of the Communist clique which took over the Harvard Student Union in 1939...
...The ecstatic reception given Kennedy in Berlin seemed to be the New Frontier's high point thus far...
...has come forward with his own memoir of those years...
...Any authentic account must reflect that...
...Robinson Weil was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
...Before joining the government R lived on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue, where intimate contact with members of the international banking community came as a matter of course...
...What the neighbors did not know was that I had developed a drinking problem from finishing the leftovers after my parents' parties...
...I had gotten in the habit of watching television weekday afternoons as a way of unwinding after a long day in the fourth grade, before starting in on homework...
...Yarmolinsky speak interestingly on Defense policy...
...When the Warren Commission's findings were published he was surprised to find no reference to Herb by name or otherwise in the entire multi-volume report...
...My father's own office, however, was jammed with mementoes-personal, political, official, and semi-official...
...My father had not yet said anything about the security leak and he was beginning to be concerned that someone might interpret this as negligence...
...Things were beginning to move quickly...
...Cameron Whittaker Williamson, the author of District Dossier, developed a writer's block and never completed Executive Exposi, the promised next volume in his Washington series...
...Their photos and grateful letters were later posted on classroom bulletin boards...
...My father speculated that on the day Williamson or his surrogates did their "research," he must have driven the station wagon to work...
...Neither were attractive in personality terms...
...More bourbon and less scotch was served at Washington cocktail parties than in Manhattan...
...The school authorities' idealistic efforts were, however, undermined by widespread juvenile delinquency...
...The telephone call was from Washington, D.C.-my father was to call back Operator No...
...From the rounds of embassy dinners and receptions they became particularly friendly with the Czech Ambassador and his senior aides, often joining the more fashionable Eastern European set for a nightcap at the end of a busy diplomatic evening...
...But these were the 1960s and in romantic matters we were maturing faster than the established institutions recognized...
...The conviction that Washington would be the first target in any nuclear exchange dominated all our speculation...
...R's Wall Street law firm counseled the powerful Kuhn, Loeb investment banking house, which has been linked to London's Warburgs...
...She said that Anne Post Turner, the Cincinnati newspaper heiress who was one of her closest friends, had died from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills...
...Prior to these visits I had grimly assumed that office work must be like elementary school, only with longer hours and almost no vacation...
...Fisher...
...You can never tell where something like this is going to lead," she said...
...At Halloween emphasis was put on collecting money for UNICEF, the United Nations Childrens Fund...
...Before Christmas we were encouraged to buy sets of UNICEF greeting cards...
...There's nothing we can do," my mother said...
...Schlesinger cited the printed cards Dallas businessmen were passing out at cocktail parties earlier in the year...
...Henry Fairlie and Benjamin Bradlee have revised and supplemented it...
...After Mr...
...To make identification even simpler it was Williamson's idiosyncrasy to include precise descriptions of his subjects' cars...
...in Washington's Georgetown section and made plans to move in at the end of the school year with my sister and me...
...My father, who had decided against a congressional race, still chafed under the Hatch Act's restrictions on government employees' political activity...
...He stepped down from his Treasury post to prepare for the six-week, ten-nation tour...
...Much of the money raised for UNICEF and orphans in South Korea never actually reached them...
...What immediately stood out in Williamson's fantastic attack was that the car he described was not my father's-a silver Chrysler New Yorker-but the station wagon my mother drove...
...For national security reasons it was against the school rules to ask another student what his or her father did...
...R drives a green 1962 Plymouth with New York license plates...
...Even today, wherever adult Americans gather, the question is asked, "Where were you when you heard that President Kennedy had been shot...
...Now a Wade Rawson, Jr...
...They were particularly disgusted by the story of a Dallas fourth grade class applauding the news of Kennedy's assassination, my parents' assumption being that the fourth graders were probably just naively expressing the prevailing adult sentiment...
...In this kind of climate anything can happen," my father said...
...The hopes of all mankind rest upon us...
...A lot of thought went into these presents," my father remarked...
...When senators, senior diplomats, or a cabinet secretary came to one of their parties they were delighted...
...Conventional wisdom holds that no one dealing secretly with the Communists would associate with them openly-but the Communists are familiar with this line of reasoning, too...
...At the Fall Frolic, money was raised for the school's scholarship fund...
...Within the department, however, a rivalry had developed between him and Robinson Weil, a wealthy Texas businessman recently appointed with Vice President Johnson's strong backing...
...She prided herself on never getting any traffic citations-at least she hadn't gotten one in years...
...At home their conversation was studded with exotic names such as India Edwards and Algier Biddle Duke...
...It was scheduled for December 3rd...
...Washington, Fall 1961 "Life in 1961 will not be easy," President Kennedy said in his State of the Union message...
...Meanwhile most school social life still revolved around the big roller-rink birthday parties...
...But 1 suppose you have to do what you feel is right...
...There was a sizable New Frontier element on the island and in the village of Chilmark, where we went, a pervasive New Frontier spirit, although the only other Administration officials actually there were Presidential Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner and a few others...
...During the drive the radio in her new Ford country wagon carried continuous reporting from Dallas and before we arrived it was reported the President had died...
Vol. 16 • November 1983 • No. 11
