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Perhaps a paradigm for Bok's 15th year is the outrageous dictum issued last week by Samuel C. Butler, president of the Board of Overseers, Harvard's alumni-elect governing body. In the notorious tradition of his immediate predecessor, Joan T. Bok, Butler has attempted to cut the board off from the community at large and restrict the free speech of its members. The New York lawyer issued a letter that warned overseers against allowing "leaks" to members of the press, recommending that any media inquiry receive "a no comment, followed by a polite goodbye." Though President...
...Senator-elect Michael J. Barrett '70, will not attend any elaborate orientation sessions before he succeeds Bachrach as northwestern Cambridge's State Senator. Goode says Barrett has been "hanging his hat" in the Bachrach office lately, but "there's nothing to hand over except the furniture, some background files, and a few pointers on how to get things done...
...part of his nature to question everything, including his hopes. In his best essay, Schlesinger writes of the "precariousness" of the American experiment in the eyes of the Founding Fathers, and his own. It was only later, he notes, that Americans began to think of themselves as an "elect nation," a "redeemer nation...
...city contracts for collecting unpaid parking tickets and water bills, fell far short of an attack on the mayor. To the contrary, U.S. Attorney Anton R. Valukas praised Washington for his cooperation. Said Valukas: "The mayor is not a target." Said Washington in turn: "I didn't elect the people on the city council; I only voted for one of them...
...second ballot for a new vice president, Law received 39% and Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, a May-style moderate, 34%. Milwaukee's liberal Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who has implied that there are similarities between the Pope's clampdown and inquisitions of the past, drew 26%. Pilarczyk eventually won. In elections of U.S. representatives to a Vatican synod next year, moderates and liberals joined forces to elect Weakland and again bypass...