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...Bartlett Giamatti, 43, lovable but rumpled president of Yale, comparing himself with dapper Predecessor Kingman Brewster: "I don't have his beautiful suits, but I wouldn't look good in them...
...Lords. "Today," said left-wing Standard-Bearer Tony Benn, 55, "we have changed the course of British history." The radical platform seemed certain to frighten many of Labor's moderate voters, and the strengthened left in power could transform Britain's relations with the U.S. Warned Kingman Brewster, retiring American Ambassador to London: "Britain can't have it both ways...
William F. Buckley Jr., conservative editorialist, denying rumors that he will succeed his liberal-leaning friend Kingman Brewster Jr., former Yale president, as U.S. Ambassador to Britain: "If it be my role to clean up after Kingman Brewster, I shall first have to serve as president of Yale...
...directions his life would take. "I started getting things together in my mind," he told a reporter 20 years later, "and decided that I wanted to teach." Interested in returning to the West Coast, Bok consulted friends at Harvard Law. Under the influence of longtime friend Kingman Brewster Jr., later to become President of Yale and the man many compared to Bok, he found himself lured back to Cambridge. Now, Bok says that although he has been forced to let labor law go, he retains a particular interest in intellectual and academic questions. "Without knowing it," he says...
...Ambassador to London Kingman Brewster believes that envoys in this era could actually be more rather than less useful, mostly because they can pro vide "real perspective" and "not just the flash-flash, bang-bang, instant short focus on every dramatic event." Although Brewster favors selective summitry, he argues that only diplomats on the scene can provide the "accurate perceptions" and "nuance and detail" that are essential to the summit participants...