Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sert, who has been dean since 1953, said yesterday he will return full time to his private practice with the Cambridge firm of Sert-Jackson, which has designed Holyoke Center and Peabody Terrace...
...plight from Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato. During an Asian tour designed to bring his country a little farther out of the diplomatic tortoise shell into which it retreated after World War II, Sato declared: "If there is any suspension of the bombing, there should be a firm assurance that this would lead to an eventual settlement." In this, he echoed the privately held, if rarely voiced view held by practically every Asian leader...
...Discriminatory." Such a record would have been hard to predict back in the fall of 1817, when the school was founded with six students and one professor. In fact, as late as 1870, the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray was saying that Harvard Law was "almost a disgrace to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." That year, however, things changed. Christopher Langdell became dean, and he brought with him the case method-the innovative inspiration that has been the cornerstone of legal education ever since. He viewed the law as a science, with a series of progressively dependent rules. These rules...
...Exchange Commission got after him last year on the grounds that his activities violated American law. He finally settled with the SEC by agreeing to stop selling Fund of Funds shares to Americans, limit holdings in U.S. funds, and sell off Investors Planning Corp., a mutual-fund sales firm that I.O.S. purchased in 1965 for $2,000,000. Cornfeld claims to be happy the way things turned out. American clients account for only 3% of l.O.S.'s business anyway-and Cornfeld figures to unload Investors Planning at an $8,000,000 profit...
Died. George F. Ferris, 65, master builder and boss of Raymond International Inc. construction firm since 1953; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A specialist in the big and bold, Raymond International built the Strategic Air Command bases in Spain, the major government buildings in Brasilia, Chesapeake Bay's awesome 171-mile bridge-tunnel and, most recently, in combine with several other firms, the vast complex of airfields and harbors in Thailand and South Viet...