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General "Wild Bill" Donovan, who died 20 years ago, was the Wall Street lawyer whom President Franklin Roosevelt commissioned to set up an intelligence service in 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor. At the time, the U.S. had no formal espionage arm. Snooping had been in disrepute; a decade earlier, Secretary of State Henry Stimson had declared that "gentlemen do not read each other's mail." But Donovan persuaded F.D.R. that such etiquette need not apply in dealings with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and thus the U.S.'s first independent intelligence agency was born...
...Clark, an ambassador-at-large for refugee matters in the State Department, whom Carter had just designated as head of the new Cambodian relief effort, resigned last week to join the Kennedy campaign. Carter accepted the resignation with a snappish note. Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne told Carter three weeks ago that she would support him, according to John White, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but last week she announced her pledge to Kennedy. This gives the Massachusetts Senator an important advantage in the critical Illinois primary next March. Morris Dees, Carter's chief fund raiser in 1976, switched...
With a strong third-place finish in the Heptagonals last Friday and an upset victory in the Big Three two weeks ago--not to mention the disintegration of Yale--the men's cross country team looked like a sure bet to qualify for the Nationals in the regional qualifier held at noon today at Franklin Park...
Four years ago, the Olympic squad came into Watson only to get knocked off by a spirited Harvard team, 5-2. Two of that game's stars, nostalgically, were Gene Purdy (one goal, one assist) and George Hughes (a goal and two assists...
...heart of once-Puritan New England, can be the home of a grand new religious uproar, a modern-day, semi-Antinomian crisis. With Penn-sylvania's Quakers coming to Cambridge today, we must band together and reject William Penn's descendants as our forefathers did more than two centuries ago...