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William M. Rand, Jr. '43 and Peter K. Barber '70 are products of different eras, of different wars, of different sets of values. One grew up with the Andrews Sisters, the other with the Rolling Stones. Yet they have a couple of things in common: they both went to Harvard, and they are both volunteers in the current $250 million capital fund drive. Their reasons for joining the drive, as might be expected, differ radically...
...stereotypical impression of the alumnus fund raiser conjures up visions of a balding, bespectacled ex-business executive who spends his time drinking fine sherry, poring over rare volumes in his study, and reflecting back on the good old days of college. Peter Barber doesn't fit that mold. "The good old days" he remembers here were not always so good, and they are not yet old enough to have lost their sting...
...Barber says his chief motivation for supporting the fund drive lies in the University's proposed uses for the money. The stated goal of the drive, as President Bok said in announcing the project, is "not...to expand the size of the University, but to maintain and enhance its quality." Increasing financial aid to middle-income students and "preventing the erosion of faculty salaries" are two primary goals of the drive, says Thomas M. Reardon, director of University development. Barber says he wholeheartedly supports these two objectives, adding that "if this had been a bricks-and-morter drive, I probably...
Washington is pondering these portents for the next phase of the Reagan presidency. "Reagan is an agent of change," insists Congressman Barber Conable of New York. "But he does not much like tinkering with the moving parts." Indeed, without that hard core of aides and Cabinet officers who surround him, Reagan would be helpless. But he must know that, because the Meeses and Bakers and Deavers and Stockmans and Gergens and Regans and Weinbergers are in place and in tune. The structure and function of this group are the bane of scholars who wrote that such personal Government would...
...great deal of time in bed, trying to preserve their strength. The staff puts sheepskin rugs in their beds to warm their bodies, now slowly turning colder. Although they refuse medication, the men do ask the nurses to give them liniment rubdowns to soften their parched skin. A barber comes in once a week to trim their hair and, if they are feeble, give them a shave. The prisoners are weighed daily and always anxiously demand to know the exact figure, then pass the word immediately to their waiting I.R.A. comrades, who spread it everywhere. Joe McDonnell, 30, dropped from...