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Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature and a drafter of the Faculty resolution begging postponement of the Buckley amendment, has been the major Faculty spokesman against government encroa hment in the files issue. Heimert says he objects to "interference with internal educational processes, whether the legislation is good...
...member of the Governor's inner circle, Moses sang bass to Smith's tenor and soon became, in Smith's words, "the best bill drafter in Albany...
...acquired. He pointed out the vehicle too: appointive office in quasi-public institutions that were financed by bond issues and administered under special charters, beyond the reach of elected officials or the public. Moses' Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority was the mightiest. After all, "the best bill drafter in Albany" had rewritten the charter-and on his own behalf. Like most such authorities, Triborough was closed to public scrutiny. Unlike them, it was not set up merely to do one job and then quietly go out of business when its bonds were paid off. It was authorized...
...Triborough" had its own flag, its own police, its own island and a constitution in the form of "obligations to bondholders" which made it independent of city, state or federal control. With his uncanny ability as a drafter of legislation, Moses tricked mayors and governors into giving him power on a scale they never intended to and making sure that they couldn't take it away. In the end, it took the extraordinary coincidence that Nelson Rockefeller was governor of New York and his brother David controlled the Chase Manhattan Bank, which was the trustee of the Triborough bondholders...
Graham T. Allison Jr., associate professor of Politics in the Kennedy School of Government and a co-drafter of "Harvard and Money," said yesterday, "I would not be against having the Treasurer on a Board of Directors in every instance, but I think it should be a definite policy decision. The manager of Harvard's portfolio should sit on Boards of Directors only when Harvard decides that is in its interest...