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Photographer Ansel Adams, opera singer Leontyne Price and Oscar Zariski, Robinson Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, will receive honorary degrees at Thursday's Commencement exercises. In addition, several sources indicated yesterday that former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance may be on this year's list of ten honorary degree recipients...
...famine at International Harvester has come after years of plenty. Founded in 1831 by Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the first mechanical reaper, the company was directed primarily by the McCormick family until 1977. But Chairman Brooks McCormick, Cyrus' great-grandnephew, then admitted that the firm had become "stodgy." Said McCormick two months before his retirement as chief executive officer: "We've been a slumbering giant. We need a shake-up and a darned good...
...Cyrus Vance, former secretary of state and last year's speaker, and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, (D.-N.Y.), a former professor of Education who spoke in 1977, did not receive honoraries, marking a departure from previous tradition. Honoraries and commencement speakers are customarily not announced until commenc%ment...
...official dinner hosted by Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Haig poked some fun at his own troubles within the Administration. In a toast to Shamir, Haig told the guests that he had been puzzled by exactly what it meant to be "vicar" of foreign policy. Cyrus Vance told him it meant being alone with the President three times a week. Henry Kissinger said it meant that when he was alone with the President and the hot line rings, the President tells Mr. Brezhnev, "I'm busy now. Can you call back later...
Tapes introduced by the prosecutor last week show him boasting to Habib of his connections with then Secretary of State Cyrus Vance ("a neighbor back in New Jersey"), with Fritz Mondale ("the Vice President used to work for me," on a Senate committee) and with Howard Baker ("he's in the same class I am ... I'm just a little ahead of him in seniority"). Other tapes showed Co-defendant Alexander Feinberg, 72, Williams' personal attorney, discussing his role in the titanium deal with FBI Operative Weinberg, telling him that Williams is "happy as a lark about...