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...February decision came in the wake of three reports by Faculty committees--the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee, the Committee on Educational Policy, and the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee-as well as by the now-defunct Harvard Undergraduate Council recommending that ROTC be restructured for academic reasons...
...less distinctive name of Peter Mathews first materialized on our masthead in 1924 under the title of Weekly Contributor. He wrote articles, answered letters from TIME readers, and even appeared in a now defunct TIME column called Miscellany on more than one occasion. The truth is that Peter Mathews was an amiable figment of the imagination, the ghostliest writer on our staff, and in 1960 his name left the masthead forever...
Time: 1950. Scene: Birdland, the now defunct Manhattan cellar where the faithful gathered to hear the latest sounds of bebop. Backstage, the goings on were something less than harmonious, even for bop. The band was taking a vote. It seemed that the house pianist would not contribute to the group's heroin kitty. In fact, he was not interested in drugs at all. That would hardly do, and consequently Billy Taylor was voted out. "I don't know," recalls Taylor, "maybe they thought I was trying to give jazz a good name...
Almost every race horse carries into each race the hopes and dreams of an ephemeral fan club: the men and women who placed bets on him just moments before. But Knight Counter, a highly successful five-year-old, has a permanent cheering squad-the 12,000 depositors of the defunct Prudential Building & Loan Association in Louisville...
...years, Dean concentrated on civil rights legislation and on criminal law reforms. In 1967 he became associate director of a now defunct panel (the National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws), which was set up to advise Congress and the President. There he struck one colleague as courteous, pleasant to work with but somewhat facile. Recalled the colleague: "He gave the appearance of having more poise and assurance than he really possessed...