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Pusey had never been a popular choice among the Beacon Hill-Upper East Side-Main Line members of the Harvard establishment. A scholarship student from a Midwestern high school, he was hardly in their tradition. But the State Street bankers, and their St. Grottlesex classmates who dominated the Faculty, were willing to withhold judgment. For a time, things seemed to be working out, and the angry murmurs in the lounges of the Somerset and Union clubs died down somewhat. But to the traditional Brahmin, religion has always been more lip service than piety, and the idea that a Harvard President...
...last decade of his Presidency, Pusey built more buildings and raised more money than he had before, but there was a subtle difference. A quiet vote of confidence had been taken, and he had been defeated. Beacon Hill was no longer on his side. He reacted with suspicion to every move made by the Dean of the Faculty. McGeorge Bundy (whose family tree abounds in Lowells, Putnams, and other Beacon Hill familiars), and acted as Dean himself for a year after Bundy's resignation, attempting to reassert his control. It is no accident that no Harvard graduate, indeed, no Easterner...
...month, he started his own company, a one-man operation, and it was an immediate success. In early April, Mr. Papers took on a business partner, Chris Frazier, and moved to a new office on 334 Beacon...
...wounding thirteen. No one can make any sense out of the shooting; there was no sniping; the Guardsmen were neither in danger nor even surrounded; the number of rocks thrown was not large; and there was even plenty of tear gas-both FBI reports and the report by the Beacon-Journal make these facts clear. The only gun seized on campus that day belonged to a student taking pictures for the campus police...
...weeks. But the cover-up was under way before that. According to the FBI report, the Guardsmen got together and agreed to say that they had been in danger and had fired to keep from being overrun by students who wanted to grab their guns and bayonet them. The Beacon-Journal report explodes this flimsy story by quoting a Guardsman as saying, "The guys have been saying that we got to get together and stick to the same story, that it was our lives or them, a matter of survival. I told them I would tell the truth...