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Kiely's connection to University Hall would be hard to deny. Chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, associate dean of the Faculty, and chairman of the Committee on General Education, he's among the brightest stars in Bok's galaxy of bureaucratic luminaries. On the other hand, the importance of connecting the Houses to University Hall--especially if it means sacrificing masters' identification with their own Houses--seems open to question. Before the University's evident decision that everyone knows what a House is for, President Abbott Lawrence Lowell's statement of the Houses' purpose used to be reprinted...
...trial for bribery. The federal attorneys seemed to have an open-and-shut case against Garrison, because they had tape recordings of him accepting bribes. But they had underestimated their quarry. Midway through the trial, Garrison--who would sit in court all day reading The Best and the Brightest and underlining his favorite passages--fired his lawyers and took over his own defense. He completely bowled over the jury, and was acquitted...
These days he is deep in the writing of his memoirs, due to be published this fall. Strewn about his living-room office are piles of books bearing on Viet Nam: Frances FitzGerald's Fire in the Lake, David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, Walt Rostow's The Diffusion of Power, Daniel Ellsberg's Papers on the War. They provide context, checkpoints and sometimes hostile fire for Westmoreland as he works through his own recollections. Does he think that he can add to the work of the earlier analysts? "No one else...
Woody Hayes and former Chicago Bear Star Gale Sayers (representing his alma mater Kansas) both visited Summit, N.J., recently-and for good reason. Summit is the home town of Running Back Willie Wilson, one of the East Coast's brightest high school football stars. The two football celebrities were only a part of a 40-man invasion force that, according to Wilson's coach Howie Anderson, lined up "like vacuum cleaner salesmen" to see Wilson...
...such story earned CHNS considerable publicity-and some notoriety. Bellamy reported on a telephone poll that CHNS had conducted among Senate legislative aides. With 75 of the 100 offices responding, aides named Henry Jackson as the "most effective" Senator, Jacob Javits as the "brightest" and Philip Hart as the Senator with the "most integrity." On the minus side, Senators Mike Gravel, William Scott and Vance Hartke were bunched together as "least effective." Some of the Senators were predictably pleased, others predictably outraged. Some felt that the CHNS polling method had all the reliability of a high school popularity contest...