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Nevertheless, this year's graduates passed the baton, to their successors at the May rally, and newly-elected Council President Edward H. Vela has vowed to continue to press for reform. And given the faculty's unwillingness to concede a student vote in appointments decisions, the storm of protest appears unlikely to subside...
...drags Spence to the myriad committee meetings that fill his calendar, but he has not found the transition to be like a final dash to the finish line. "It's more like a relay race," says Rosovsky. "I'm still running, and I'm getting ready to pass the baton to Michael Spence, and then he'll start running...
...present transition marks the first orderly passing of the baton in a number of years, Rosovsky points out. The last dean of the Faculty, John E. Dunlop, accepted a post in the Nixon Administration and left on short notice in 1973. Franklin Ford left office in 1969 at a time of turbulence, and before him, McGeorge Bundy "went to Washington very suddenly," Rosovsky notes. As far back as the '50's, Pearl Buck resigned somewhat precipitously when Nathan M. Pusey '28 became President of Harvard...
...banned from performing until he can prove himself innocent of being a Nazi sympathizer. Onto his podium steps a 33-year-old music, mathematics and philosophy student from Rumania named Sergiu Celibidache. Despite his lack of professional experience, Celibidache more than restores the orchestra's prewar luster. "A baton genius, beyond any doubt," declares one Berlin critic. Only his former teacher at Berlin's Hochschule für Musik, Heinz Tiessen, fails to join the praise. "My, what an idiot you are," Tiessen tells him. "You are making effects, not music...
...tepee in here," he said. "Nelle vetoed that." Reagan rubbed a hand over a huge brass ball on the bedstead in his parents' room and recalled that he had taken one from the original bed frame, put it on a broomstick and used the contraption as a baton to lead the Y.M.C.A. band...