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...School flap, and a similar dispute over an audit performed at the School of Public Health, is part of a larger national controversy between federal authorities and major research universities, many of which have suffered problems similar to Harvard...
...Senate payroll in 1941 at $4,500 a year, almost half his Senate salary; and her acceptance while First Lady of a gift freezer that was linked to an alleged influence-peddling scandal. Neither issue did her much harm. During a Senate probe of the Democratic freezer flap, the highly partisan Republican Joseph R. McCarthy called her one of the "finest things about the White House" and declared her above suspicion...
...publicly as they talked privately. In 1966, speaking to G.I.s at Camp Stanley in Korea, Lyndon Johnson became so worked up that he reverted to the Texas storyteller he always was. He told the world that his great-great-grandfather had died at the Alamo. Pure fiction. Knowing a flap was coming, Aide George Christian tried delicately to brace L.B.J. for the outcry. "I never said that," pouted Johnson. Politely as he could, Christian told Johnson that he had heard him say it. "I don't care what you heard," snorted Johnson. "I didn...
...good a chance? Says Arthur Zeikel, president of Merrill Lynch Asset Management, under which the Phoenix Fund will flap its wings: "There is a long list of companies whose real prospects are much better than they appear. Their depressed prices in many instances simply do not reflect true value or their potential...
...Harvard men's cross country team took its act to New York Friday afternoon, and in contrast to last weekend's dismal loss to Northeastern, it was no flap. The Crimson scored key victories over Columbia and Penn to jump out to a 2-0 record in Ivy League Competition. The win over Columbia was Harvard's first in three years...