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Merle Fainsod will retire June 30 as director of Harvard's Russian Research Center. Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, will succeed him in the post, which is customarily held for five years...
...cold. Other writers have fared much worse-or feared to try publishing at all. The Trial Begins, a brilliant satiric fantasy that treats life among party members as a grotesque nightmare of greed and hypocrisy, had to be smuggled out of Russia and printed under the assumed name of Abram Tertz. No one yet knows who the real author is. Soviet Writer Valery Tarsis, in The Bluebottle (Knopf), cavalierly compared the attitude of officials liquidating citizens to that of a man swatting flies-and was promptly sent to an insane asylum. Others have been dispatched to the hinterlands for stretches...
Running unopposed in Kirkland House was Michael E. Abram '66, a former Council representative. Sanford J. Ungar '66 won uncontested in Winthrop House. Leverett House witnessed a tight battle between William J. Billick '65 and Evan Davis '66, with Billick winning by a small margin...
...experience of the four ex-Law School professors has been slightly less academic than Bell's. Abram Chayes, who has served as Legal Counsel to the State Department since 1961, has been deeply involved in several key foreign policy issues throughout his stay in Washington. "There is nothing that doesn't have legal aspects," says Chayes, who has dealt with problems ranging from, the Cuban crisis and the Moscow test-ban treaty to the first international piracy case in 100 years--the hijacking of the Santa Maria from Portugal in 1961. He has worked on the thorny legal questions...
...five, four--Stanley Surrey, Archibald, Cox, Abram Chayes and John McNaughton--were professors at the Law School before going to the Capital. David Beil was Secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration and Lecturer in Economics. Presently scattered around Washington in four different Departments, the Harvard contingent classifies their experience in Washington as "exhilarating," "frustrating," "fascinating," and as a "good kind of interlude." But while they welcomed the chance to "get in touch with reality," they all look with obvious relish to the day they will return to academic life...