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Richard R. Baxter, professor of Law and chairman of the committee, proposed on April 6 to present the results of an alumni poll of ROTC graduates before the Faculty. Malcolm Marshall '41 and Franklin Cunningham '41, the ROTC graduates who organized the poll among ROTC men in the classes from 1926 to 1965, said that only 38 men out of 1000 favored removing the program...
...Thomas C. Schelling. professor of Economics and member of the committee, objected to Baxter's proposal and said he did not want to present the ROTC alumni responses to the Faculty "unless we think they are grounds for reopening the ROTC question or something of the sort...
...calling today's meeting, R. R. Baxter, professor of Law and chairman of the Committee, referred to a mail campaign of Harvard's ROTC graduates and stated, "Since these letters and cards [from ROTC graduates] represent serious responses by Harvard alumni, I hardly see how we can simply chuck the whole lot in the trash basket." The meeting today will take place at 1 p. m. in the Faculty Club...
...only be said that its protagonist, a successful whodunit writer named Andrew Wyke (Anthony Quayle), is a witty snob who is inwardly delighted when a would-be lover makes a bid to divest him of his burdensome wife. Wyke sets out to ensnare his apparent dupe (Keith Baxter) in his own obsession with masks, disguises and charades, and, of course, is himself ensnared...
Taut and literate as Shaffer's entertainment is, it could have been merely another of those theatrical arabesques that fade as quickly as the footlights. Two things redeem it from such slickness. The stylish gusto of Baxter and especially of Quayle give the whole performance an edge that could cut glass. Moreover, Shaffer manages deftly to satirize the detective genre at the same time that he constructs a classic model of it. His satire brings out a hint of desperation behind the characters' capering. Ultimately his sport is directed against the games-playing mentality itself, with its retreat...