Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resigned last week, has been offered $250,000 for his J.F.K.-L.B.J. reminiscences-if he cares to write them. Lawyer Myer Feldman, who quit last March as counsel to the President, is making many times his $28,500 White House salary as a partner in a Washington law firm. And, of course, Feldman is writing his memoirs...
...market-promotions manager for the Ballantine beer outfit. Another former press aide, Malcolm Kilduff, whose chief claim to fame is that he announced Kennedy's death to the press in Dallas, is in the $50,000-a-year bracket as a partner in a Washington public relations firm...
...search for Communists extended to Harvard. The University, acting on a long tradition of academic freedom, held firm against the general craze to find subversive scapegoats and against the particular abuses of Senator McCarthy. Vital questions were thrust upon the University regarding the ambigious figure of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, at a time of uncertainty caused by the resignation of President Conant. Harvard's action in the Furry case, its support of the scholar's right to political independence at a time when the national desire for blood letting was at its height, was a turning point...
Therefore, it was to be Coolidge, if anyone, who would swing the Fellows of the Corporation behind Buck in support of Furry. Son of an old Boston family, First Marshal of his class, Coolidge had graduated from Harvard Law School and entered the prestigious Federal Street firm of Ropes and Gray. Acting as head of the Fellows in place of the incapacitated Dr. Lee, he was responsible for all of the Corporation's official announcements as well as the ultimate form of its policy...
Bayo Braithwaite, 36, one of Nigeria's younger businessmen, left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided. So successful has Braithwaite been that his African Alliance Insurance Co Ltd occupies a six-story Lagos home office and has 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lives in an elegant house in suburban Ikoyi, where glass and concrete are deliberately intermixed with African folk art to prove that "the two need never clash...