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...first requirement is for Harvard, at the highest level, to adopt a comprehensive, affirmative, and specific personnel policy directed especially at the question of recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting of disadvantaged workers. Here, as elsewhere, action has been in response to pressure, but rarely in accord with any policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson's Report Harvard Can't Ignore the City | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...Association president, a Nixon classmate at Duke law school and a personal friend, and Attorney General John Mitchell, the 1968 campaign manager. A third, Herbert Brownell, Eisenhower's Attorney General?and Burger's boss for three years in the Justice Department in the early '50s?withdrew of his own accord because he thought his former job would raise opposition in the Senate. A fourth, Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee to the court, took himself out because he thought that elevation of an Associate Justice would create friction and jealousy on the bench. Thomas Dewey, twice the Republican candidate for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A PROFESSIONAL FOR THE HIGH COURT | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Fortunately or unfortunately, human beings, perhaps especially human beings in universities, do not live together in strict accord with general principles. Instead they work out, from case to case, a set of often unspoken agreements and working rules to govern their own behavior and settle conflicts. This process began at Harvard as early as the McNamara episode. Whether it can continue is uncertain because the moral conflict is indeed an intense one. There are, I suggest, two closely related prerequisites for any accommodation that may still make possible serious intellectual work. One would be a shift in emphasis among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSOLUBLE PROBLEM | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...elevating Villot, the Pope is also meeting his own personal requirements, since Villot is in accord with Paul's middle-of-the-road style. During the Second Vatican Council, he was the chief diplomatic intermediary between the often hostile progressive and conservative camps. Like the Pope, he tends to be conservative theologically, but he is far less rigid than the reactionary Cicognani. Although the son of a wealthy landowner, Villot was known as a champion of "the church of the poor" while Archbishop of Lyon and had frequent and cordial contacts with many dissident groups, including the French worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Housekeeping at the Vatican | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...discussions would persuade traditionalists to re-examine their faith in the light of the 20th century. For the first time in centuries, representatives of the two major Moslem sects - the Shiite and Sunnite - held a formal dialogue on their doctrine. To their surprise, they found themselves more in accord than apart. One immediate byproduct of this harmony was a resolution to meet again and form an international Islamic research center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moslems: Determining Allah's Will | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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