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...transport 700 men. The conception was perhaps too grandiose for the times-the plane was only 11 ft. shorter than a 747. After the war, Maine's Senator Owen Brewster demanded to know why Hughes had spent $18 million in Government funds and produced no flyable planes. Thereupon Hughes flew his monstrosity for a mile at 70 ft. over Los Angeles Harbor, the only time it was ever in the air. Today, at an annual rental of $46,000, the plane is hangared under guard on the Long Beach waterfront, a monument to Hughes' lifelong reluctance to admit failure...
...that Phase III will require harsh cutbacks in facilities and personnel. Eliot House is sold to a hotel corporation and becomes the Sheraton Finley. Master Heimert, put on waivers, is picked up by Yale to be curator of their new Organic Food collection. ("Here's a man," says Kingman Brewster proudly, "who's sown his wild oats.") Senior Tutor Kevin Starr takes the vows and changes his name to Kevin Superstarr...
...UNIVERSITY POLICE (right) fight for control of the body, attempting to transport it to their respective headquarters. With the traditional Commencement oratory flourishes tempered by what Newsweek will next week label (in its cover story) "the new frankness among college presidents", President Bok does award honorary degrees to: Kingman Brewster ("...for dedicated service to scholarship and mankind..."), H. Ross Perot ("...because he is rich...") and Beverly Sills ("...we needed a woman...
...That You Love Me, Derek Bok". (Informed sources report this is in reaction to a Yale announcement that it has hired Ken Russell to produce a movie of "Dink Stover at Yale" starring Twiggy as Dink Stover at Yale" starring Twiggy as Dink and Glenda Jackson as Kingman Brewster.) On frontispiece we see CHASE PETERSON (in madras sunglasses) and PREMINGER examining mockups of Kirkland House and Arthur Smithies, recreated on a studio back...
Yale has undergone a cultural transformation. Its response to the trends of the Sixties has finally put it on the map. "Yale Chic" bombards the public everywhere. Its heroes--Brewster, Reich, Segal, Coffin, Cavett, Doonesbury--have become nationwide personalities through the bestseller lists, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, late-night talk shows and daily comics...