Word: allison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GRAHAM K. ALLISON JR. '62, dean of the Kennedy School, had good reason to be angry last Monday night. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown's soporific advertisement for SALT II--beamed live and in color to the largest crowd in the K-School Forum's history--had suddenly gone haywire. An elaborate farce had turned into melodrama. While 20 of their comrades picketed outside, two protesters from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) had managed to smuggle themselves into the building, and one began screaming at Brown ten minutes into his speech. All those plans, all those arrangement... screwed...
...possible that more than the immediate disruption struck a raw nerve in Allison; an unwelcome feeling of deja vu may have contributed. Thirteen years earlier, on November 7, 1966, Allison watched another crowd of over 500 Harvard students greet a Secretary of Defense. But that time, the controversy had been a bit more intense...
...commotion that followed, some students tried to force an open path, others blocked the way, and hundreds ran over to join the action. It took some time before they realized that the car's occupant was not Robert McNamara, architect of the war, but Graham K. Allison '62, Institute official, doing...
...Then Allison took a microphone beside the stage. His voice fraught with barely restrained anger, Allison warned the man: "If you don't shut up right now, Secretary Brown will leave." As if on cue, the audience greeted Allison's remarks with thunderous applause. The students spoke with one clear voice: they wanted to hear the Secretary of Defense, not Red rabble-rousers from Dorchester...
...Allison sums it up when he says, "If you ask if Engelhard's name is prominently and honorably displayed in the library, the answer is yes. If you ask if the books of Harvard carry the original name of Engelhard, the answer is yes. But if you ask if Harvard will force anyone to recite any particular formula as a name, the answer is no, as it would always...