Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School faculty and staff members so that she could prepare it in anticipation of an announcement which was no longer even an open secret. Bok then spent the rest of the morning, including two-and-a-half hours with CRIMSON reporters, waiting for the expected phone call from Burr...
Approval for Bok's selection took more than two hours as the full Board of Overseers questioned Burr-who supervised the selection process-and members of their executive committee on their interviews with...
...Overseers applauded both their choice and Burr, the man who can take most of the credit for picking him, as Burr walked out of the room to call the new President...
Finally, his secretary put the call through, and he spoke briefly to Burr, ending by wishing him a pleasant fishing trip in New Zealand. He walked over to his wife, said, "Well, that's that. It's done," and kissed her. His three secretaries, somewhat teary-eyed, stood in the doorway as he explained to them solemnly that he could not have told them anything earlier. Then he said he needed a vacation...
After a short lunch (at which he ate tuna fish sandwiches, he said), he appeared at Holyoke Center with Burr and C. Douglas Dillion '31, chairman of the Board of the Overseers...