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...Duchess; when last seen, she was on her way to hang-glide off Big Sur, Calif. Swaggering down the aisle, belching and downing a beer at the same time, is Rick, the ex-football bruiser turned singles-bar cruiser. Sitting in the front row is his natural enemy, Mrs. Beasley, the perfect housewife from Calumet City, Ill. Mrs. Beasley's brain is a pincushion of anxiety. "These days it's not enough for a housewife to be loving and neat as a pin," she frets. "We must be creative. There are some things you can make so cleverly...
Harris, 52, was raised in Mattoon, Ill. Her father was a railroad dining-car waiter, her mother a schoolteacher. She graduated summa cum laude from Howard University in 1945. Moving to Washington in 1949, she later married William Beasley Harris, now an administrative-law judge for the Federal Maritime Commission (they have no children). With her husband's encouragement, she completed George Washington University Law School in 1960. She was first in her class...
...much of an "Old Guard" Democrat . . . Civil rights champion since student days . . . Speaks up for blacks, women and other minority groups as director of IBM, Scott Paper, Chase Manhattan Bank . . . Member of prestigious Washington law firm with strong middle-of-the-road Democratic ties . . . Protestant . .. Married to William Beasley Harris, an attorney with the Federal Maritime Commission...
...administration is no stranger to labor battles: over the last year alone it has squared off against individual workers (such as Sherman Holcombe), unions (the dining hall workers), and labor organizers (District 65). But intra-management challenges like Brown-Beasley's are something new to Harvard and apparently something about which the University has much to learn...
Though not surprising, it would be sad if Harvard continued to mistake Brown-Beasley's peculiar manner--his profuse letter-writing, his occasional self-righteousness and his inordinate suspicion--as reasons to treat his charges lightly. On procedural grounds Brown-Beasley has a strong case against Harvard, and beyond this there remain the serious substantive allegations he has made about the operation of the Office of Fiscal Services and, more generally, the application of computers at Harvard. Apples, oranges and bananas aside, there's more to the Brown-Beasley controversy than fruit cocktai