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...nine months picking Derek Bok from the array of contestants and, by their own admissions, there wasn't even a first runner-up. He won prizes in every category-talent congeniality, primary academic commitment, administration, scholarship, student rapport. He's even supposed to be a close friend of Kingman Brewster. His name bubbled forth from an original list of 1200 people, and not just people but eminences, names, People. John Gardner, Elliot Richardson, Mac Bundy, John Lindsay, step aside, meet Derek C. Bok, Harvard's answer to the question that's on everybody's lips: "My God, What next...
...there is no room, or time, for second thoughts. Perhaps the only consolation is that his professorship at the Law School will still be there 15 years from now if he wants it. He might just take it if his impression-founded in a conversation with Yale's Kingman Brewster and Chicago University President Edward Levi-is correct that "some [university] presidents enjoy their work... it is not necessarily a form of intellectual and academic suicide...
...Free Ericka, Free Bobby" became a protest watchword, aerosoled onto sidewalks and building fronts across the country. The jury selection required a laborious four months; more than 1,500 individuals were called and 1,035 examined before the body was empaneled. No less a figure than Yale President Kingman Brewster voiced skepticism that any black revolutionary could get a fair trial...
...next day they continued their protest by bringing their lunches to Yale President Kingman Brewster's home and leaving their litter all over his lawn. Brewster discussed the issues with a few representatives but declined to address the entire crowd...
...member commission, appointed by Yale President Kingman Brewster in January 1970, included 24 faculty members, five non-faculty employees, 24 students, five non-faculty employees, 24 students, two alumni and five others...