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...Kingman Brewster, 51, president of Yale University: "Kingman Brewster is the perfect model, but I think everyone is afraid he wants to be president of the country, not Harvard," one man who sat in search committee meetings said last month...
...Black Panthers and their sympathizers shouted their charges of political-racial persecution. Defense attorneys wrote a legal brief arguing that the Connecticut jury-selection system was unconstitutional. Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. expressed skepticism about the judicial system's ability to be fair. All this even before the New Haven trial of Lonnie McLucas began. Throughout the eleven-week proceeding, the question persisted: Could a predominantly white, middle-class jury objectively judge the actions of a revolutionary Black Panther...
...fair trial." Equally pleased was Judge Harold M. Mulvey, whose calm demeanor and evenhanded rulings became daily lessons on how well the judicial system can work. Mulvey told the jurors that they had shown "the whole wide world" how earnest they had been about returning a fair verdict. Kingman Brewster, whose remarks in April provoked hot arguments, was silent last week. "Absolutely no comment," he said. "And no comment on my no comment." As he left the courtroom, McLucas himself, though awaiting sentencing, appeared content with the verdict...
...year to make Yale's fundraisers quit. Along with an invasion by more than 500 undergraduate coeds, the school suffered its first student strike, a mass occupation by white activists and Black Panthers, and stern words by Spiro Agnew urging the replacement of Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. One volunteer fund-raising officer resigned and threatened that he would urge his classmates to stop giving if Brewster did not resign too. Meantime, Yale's would-be contributors suffered as the stock market plunged...
...fund-raisers balanced the books last week, though, it turned out that Yale alumni had kept the faith. Apparently still satisfied with Brewster's stewardship, they had forked over $4,643,322, the biggest sum ever raised by Yale's annual alumni fund campaign-or that of any other American university...