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...nephew of former treasurer Paul C. Cabot '21--are part of a new generation in Harvard financial affairs. As such they are now more daring and interested in innovation than their predecessors at State Street. When Cabot was named, it became apparent that the younger generation was preparing to embark on some bold new ideas for financial management...
...WHAT DOES a man, who has travelled the path of civil liberties law from its summit during the civil rights movement to its current slump, say to a group of Harvard students preparing to embark on careers of litigation? Plenty...
...tops, took color pictures, gathered oth er data and then was hurled by the enormous gravitational pull of the sun's larg est planet onto a course that will eventually carry it out of the solar sys tem, toward the stars - the first object from earth ever to embark on such a cosmic odyssey...
...Yale arts graduate, Lewis induced the Yale University Press to embark upon the publication of all Walpole's available letters. Lewis was appointed a university research assistant to work on the project, but he waived the customary salary. With an inheritance from his mother, whose family were California landholders, Lewis was independently wealthy. So was his late wife, the former Annie Auchincloss, who was a granddaughter of Oliver B. Jennings, a founder of the original Standard Oil Company. In fact, Lewis has borne all the research costs of the Walpole endeavor, including some 80 trips abroad in quest...
...majority in Parliament since 1970−faced their strongest opposition ever. It consisted of a nonsocialist coalition of the Center, Liberal and Moderate (conservative) parties, led by a ruggedly handsome farmer named Thorbjorn Falldin, 47. If he won a second three-year term as Prime Minister, Palme promised to embark on an intensified campaign to increase the scope of socialism. Falldin promised to halt that trend and to restore a measure of individual initiative to Sweden's increasingly straitjacketed society...