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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Auchincloss's legal life touches his literary work in other ways, too. Like the legal agreements he draws up during the day, his prose is dry, polished, exact. Moreover, his characters are often two-dimensional, acting unspontaneously, as if according to some imagined contract. No novel better illustrates Auchincloss's legalistic point of view than his most recent one, The Winthrop Covenant...
...announcement last week that Harvard has signed a new $425,000 contract with the government of Iran to formulate a "Master Plan" for the proposed 500-student Reza Shah Kabir graduate research facility came as a surprise to no one. Harvard has now been involved in the Iranian project for a year and a half, and the continuation of the undertaking into this next stage represents a show of confidence on the part of the Iranian government--that Harvard, for the right price, will do the bidding of even the most totalitarian regime. Harvard acknowledges the totalitarian nature...
...into a shaky one. Robert W. Haack, now chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., was squeezed out after five years. Last week the climate of change proved too much for another Big Board chief. James J. Needham, chairman since 1972, resigned under pressure with two years to go on his contract...
...termination of direct involvement in the medical project raised questions concerning the nature and extent of Iranian government intervention in this and similar projects, as well as the regime's alleged failure to honor its contract agreements, a faculty consultant to HIID said Wednesday...
John C. Eddison, associate director of finance and management for HIID, said Wednesday that the 1974 contract was "certainly a major one, and the largest one we're currently engaged...