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...rather like the white smoke above the Vatican that marks the election of a new Pope, the wisps coming out of Yale Professor Emeritus Edgar Boell's chimney lately have been signaling the imminent end of Yale's seven-month search for a successor to Kingman Brewster, who resigned last April to accept the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's. Last week William Bundy, chairman of the corporation's eight-member presidential search committee, announced that the list of candidates to be Yale's 18th president-once as high as 400-had been...
...reason to try to avoid an arbitrated settlement. In 1974, after two months of a strike by Local 35, the university agreed to "non-binding fact-finding" by an outside arbitrator, who decided in favor of the union's proposals, which included a 7-per-cent wage increase. Kingman Brewster, then Yale's President, accepted all the proposals, but administrators say now they believe the university was pressured into signing the contract. So this time around, Yale is playing the game of collective bargaining more carefully. Far from announcing any willingness to accept arbitration again, university officials say instead that...
...Yale everything seemed to be happening at once. Among the recipients of honorary degrees was a well-tanned and teary-eyed Gerald Ford, who received a standing ovation as President Kingman Brewster read his citation: "It took someone to get the house clean in time for the birthday party. Somehow, you managed to get us ready to celebrate. Like the tall ships, you were a symbol of stately and cheerful serenity." Brewster, who was leaving the university after 14 often stormy years as president, then got a surprise honorary degree himself ("You have been the disturber of placid assumptions...
...wizards will not include Kingman Brewster, soon off to London, but he is being given another kind of salutation-a new T shirt with his portrait on it. At $6.50, it is selling fast at the Yale Coop. Its inscription: "The King...
...built around the courts, with internal windows that open onto them. Sunlight streams in everywhere. The details are starkly modern: exposed heating ducts, a huge, free-standing circular stairway. Yet the effect, thanks to Kahn's classical symmetry, is of a stately, updated manor house. As President Brewster observes, "It's rather remarkable that such a building could give you such a low-key, domesticated feeling...