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Four weeks in the planning, the party was the brainchild of Associate Freshman Dean W. C. Buriss Young '55, who said yesterday he conceived it over the summer while considering activities for the Freshman Council...
...therefore, Rosovsky is second to Bok and he reportedly has forged a close working relationship with the president. Rosovsky's stature increased when he turned down the presidency of Yale several years ago to stay on here. For the record the dean's said he wanted to nurse his brainchild, the Core Curriculum riculum Colleagues privately acknowledge that he is gunning for Harvard's presidency, should Bok step aside...
...have never claimed that the California Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative was my "brainchild." The genealogy of "an idea whose time has come" can get murky, but in this particular case, legitimate claims to parenthood should include the voters from western Massachusetts, who passed a resolution resembling ours, along with a number of my fellow Californians...
...which would require the state's Governor, reflecting the will of the people, to advise the President that he should propose to the Soviet Union an immediate halt to the "testing, production and further deployment of nuclear weapons ... in a way that can be verified by both sides." The brainchild of Liberal Activist Harold Willens, board chairman of the Los Angeles-based Factory Equipment Corp., the initiative has been endorsed by Governor Jerry Brown. Backers have gathered more than 600,000 signatures, nearly twice as many as are necessary to have the initiative placed on the November ballot. "We feel...
...resolution was the brainchild of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, who returned to Washington after the holiday recess last January deeply impressed with the burgeoning grass-roots movement against nuclear arms. Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon agreed to join him as sponsor, and the two lawmakers spent several weeks lining up other supporters. The single-page resolution calls upon both Washington and Moscow to "pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race," asks for a bilateral ban on the "testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads," and urges "major reductions" in stockpiled weapons...