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...thing, Harvard Law School has a proud history of producing more top-notch practicing lawyers, public officials, and judges than any other school in the nation. Because of its size--over 500 students per class--the Law School's stature should not diminish much in the next few years. But if the school intends to maintain its pre-eminent position in American public life, its new Dean must try a wide variety of policies to attract the nation's best students and teachers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Law Dean | 10/19/1967 | See Source »

...which we could be helpful to him in resisting pressure for extension and intensification of the war. As for myself, the events and official statements of the summer have only increased the worries of last June; and the recent expedition to the capital did nothing to diminish them. For the moment, however, I have too much confidence in the good sense and intellectual decency of the Harvard community to fear that honoring a commitment with regard to the confidentiality of specific discussions, while digesting what one learned and trying to develop one's own position more fully and knowledgeably, will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORD REPLIES | 10/4/1967 | See Source »

...creating additional judge power. To be sure, as our population continues to grow and the total litigation increases substantially, new judges will be needed. It has been our experience in the federal system, howver, that merely adding more judges does not serve to eliminate or even seriously diminish backlogs which have been accumulating over a period of years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Warren Asks Better Court Administration's | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

Impressed, Gutman proposed the score as leavening for Newport's predominantly romantic fare. It proved a charming, simple musical translation of Wilde's fable, a transparently written score for a vocal ensemble of children and grownups whose occasional peppery dissonances failed to diminish the limpid simplicity of its lyric lines. Like many of Williamson's works, it suggested the composer's varied background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Australian Parenthesis | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

Some believe that, as American life gets fuller, the lure of gambling will diminish. People will find such challenge in their jobs, their families, their sports and their travels (so goes the argument) that it will not be necessary to resort to the artificial excitement of gambling, and that strange and beguiling itch will disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHY PEOPLE GAMBLE (AND SHOULD THEY?) | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

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