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...unique--in fact, he is an apt symbol of the well-developed relationship between Harvard and Washington, D. C. Many other Harvard professors and administrators have accepted high government positions. In foreign policy, the list includes former U. N. ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, and presidential advisor McGeorge Bundy, architect of the U. S. strategy in Vietnam. Similar connections exist in domestic social and economic policy. As Secretary of Labor, John Dunlop designed and administered a wage-price freeze that somehow was a lot better at holding down wages than prices, and Moynihan was one of Nixon's main advisors...
...aging, disreputable and thoroughly disagreeable architect is done in, bludgeoned to death with a stone phallus. Almost everyone questioned by Inspector Santamaria (Marcello Mastroianni) has a fair disposition for murder and a shaky alibi. Nobody liked the recently deceased much, but snobbism is an unpersuasive reason for murder. The inspector, then, must search out not only a culprit but a motive...
Donovan, who graduated from the University of Tennessee, never played college golf but comes from a family that has also had long affiliations with New England golf. His father built a course in conjunction with renowned golf architect George Fazio...
...Democratic Governor in 1948, led a Southern walkout in protest against a civil rights plank in the national Democratic platform. Running for President as a Dixiecrat, Thurmond carried four Deep South states. He switched to the Republican Party in 1968, and later became an architect of Richard Nixon's 1972 "Southern strategy." Today he eagerly displays to visitors in his office a two-page list of "accomplishments in behalf of blacks." Items: "Assisted Mrs. Victoria DeLee in expediting day-care funds for Dorchester County"; "Cosponsored bill to find a cure for sickle-cell anemia...
...bill actually will lose money for the Treasury, enlarging the federal deficit, and creating more problems for the economy and the average taxpayer in the future. This view is contested by Louisiana's Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the bill's architect. He argued last week that the bill would raise $2 billion for the Treasury during the next fiscal year and $3.3 billion five years hence, helped in part by provisions that would make it slightly more difficult for wealthy individuals to avoid paying taxes altogether...