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Frenkil tried to apply pressure from other directions as well. His firm performed $45,000 worth of remodeling work on Boggs' Maryland home, charging the Congressman a bargain-basement rate of $21,000 for the job. Frenkil himself successfully solicited the support of former Maryland Senator Daniel Brewster as well as Louisiana's Long. According to the grand jury testimony, Frenkil offered Long and Brewster one-third of whatever he recovered in exchange for their assistance. Long admits that his office interceded with the AOC on Frenkil's behalf, but denies any wrongdoing on his part...
Though Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. is no less a defender of the world that Pusey envisioned, he took a rather broader view of the current student generation's motives. Speaking to Yale's seniors, Brewster decried the inaccuracies of political labels, especially as they have been tossed about on campuses recently. "To call those who are not destructively militant 'moderate' grossly understates the widespread exasperation and outrage with injustice," he said. And "to call them 'liberal' tags them with a wishful gradualism which belies the depths of their impatience." But if labels...
Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. appointed a committee to consider the university's reaction to the trial, but did not personally endorse the moratorium concept, contending that a university should remain neutral on political issues. Black faculty members thereupon got together and protested Brewster's action as "an evasion of responsibility." Black members of the committee withdrew, claiming that they were being used "as buffers to neutralize a dangerous and immediate situation." Some 1,500 students attended a "teach-in" at which New Haven Panther Leader Doug Miranda urged them: "Take your power and use it to move...
...Brewster earned high marks for transforming Yale from an elitist institution for the conventional education of affluent prep school graduates into an innovative coeducational campus, where more than 50% of the students get financial aid-and he gets credit for doing it without lowering graduation standards in the process. Brewster has also long held views that Agnew could applaud, such as his concern that "physical disruption and intimidation from the New Left" pose a "frontal challenge" to universities, and that "reason must be honored above the clash of crude and noisy enthusiasms and antipathies." He has argued that "the teacher...
Assassination. In a rare unity forged by their support of Brewster, Yale's faculty and students worked together to examine the Panther issue without violence. Some 200 students fanned out into New Haven to try to convince townspeople that the Panther trial poses the threat of political repression. "We don't necessarily support the Panther ideology-we are concerned about Bobby Scale and his companions in jail in California getting a fair trial," explained a member of the strike committee. Professors deviated from their teaching plans to concentrate on the related issues. A psychology course examined the psychology...