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...Corporation makes all the big decisions in the University,” Overseer Bruce M. Alberts ’60 told The Crimson last February. “The Overseers are a great group, but we don’t have any power in official terms...
Sources: National Park Service; Library of Congress; National Archives; Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, 1859-1865 (Library of America); The Civil War (trilogy), by Shelby Foote; Battle Cry of Freedom, by James M. McPherson; Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald; Mr. Lincoln's Army, by Bruce Catton; Battlefields of the Civil War, by William C. Davis; Historical Atlas of the United States
...broadcast the night before the blowup: "Yet another costly, red-faces-all-around space shuttle-launch delay. This time a bad bolt on a hatch and a bad-weather bolt from the blue are being blamed. What's more, a rescheduled launch for tomorrow doesn't look good either. Bruce Hall has the latest on today's high-tech low comedy." It is hard to imagine Cronkite, trying to be clever, calling the shuttle's problems "high-tech low comedy...
...this year Democrats are under siege in the West and South, the regions likely to benefit from reapportionment. In California, bland but durable Republican incumbent George Deukmejian looks unbeatable, and G.O.P. candidates are strong in New Mexico and Oregon. Three Western states are losing popular Democratic incumbents--Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, Ed Herschler of Wyoming and Richard Lamm of Colorado--leaving Republican challengers with at least an even chance of victory...
...Bruce Hoffman, a Rand Corp. analyst, warns against dismissing such adherents as "kooks or country bumpkins. These people are very adept at using weapons and explosives." The movement would be more dangerous, he says, if an effective leader were to arise. J. Gordon Melton, of Santa Barbara, Calif., an expert on marginal U.S. religions, agrees. "It's not a huge movement, and it's a fairly disorganized movement," he says. "But it doesn't take that many people with guns to do the damage." --By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Barbara Dolan/Chicago and Mary Wormley/Los Angeles