The Administration: New Envoys

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...

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