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...virtue of powers which we have invented," the baroque lettering proclaimed, the trustees of San Francisco's Millard Fillmore Institute were delighted to confer on any applicant a variety of "honorary and meretricious" titles ranging from "Doctor of Generosity" to "Doctor of Pinochle Sciences." All he needed was $10. A Latin motto made the point clear: Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute novi' (Loose translation: "You may think you're hot stuff, but we know you, buster...
...University plans to confer a total of 4231 degrees in all departments, including for the first time 23 Associates in Arts in Extension Studies...
Last week, the Council voted to have City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin '53 draft an ordinance establishing a rent control advisory board to assist Corkery. Following a motion by Councillor Edward A. Crane, the Council suggested that Cronin confer with Corkery before drafting the ordinance...
European leaders are aware of the enormous size of the stakes-and of the danger that the negotiations will founder on petty details. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt has assured Heath that he will press for a speedy decision. French President Georges Pompidou recently intimated that he will confer directly with Heath if the negotiators are unable to cut their way through the maze of issues. Pompidou has said that he favors British admission, but there is some suspicion that the French once more are seeking to find an issue on which to block British admission, as they have done...
...abstractionist: "From the outset of the show, we felt it was going to be disastrous because of the confusion of race and aesthetics." He sought out Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under Secretary-General at the United Nations, who sympathized with them. Bunche went with Johnson and Williams to confer with Baur at the Whitney. Was the museum, Dr. Bunche asked, specifically involved with aesthetics or polemics? Aesthetics, Baur replied. "Then why," Bunche inquired, "are you doing a black show?" William Williams puts the issue more bluntly. "We say any museum show ought to be about aesthetics, scholarship, quality. They say this...