Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike took a personal tool as well--Ford suffered a stroke in late April, and was temporarily replaced; Glimp left Harvard that September and did not return until this year; and Pusey left Harvard in 1971, a year before he would normally have been required to retire. With Pusey's retirement and his replacement by Derek C. Bok, former dean of the Law School, the University began to build a new governing structure--a more bureaucratized system, one of dispersed power, with less emphasis on the "one-man show" that Pusey had run for more than a decade...
Shortly thereafter demonstrators asked Glimp, Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty and now McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, and J. Petersen Elder, then dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to leave. The deans left peaceably, with Ford being allowed to return briefly to pick up his coat...
...number of students inside the building fluctuated throughout the day and night. About 200 were involved in the initial takeover; that number reportedly swelled to more than 350 by the late evening, as the demonstrators left the doors open. Pusey and Ford met throughout the day with the Council of Deans and the masters of the Houses. At 10 p.m. they reached the decision to call in the police, according to their later accounts...
Pusey and Ford justified the police action on the grounds that they had to protect the University and what it stood for. "It was quite clear that the issue was a direct assault upon the authority of the University and upon rational processes and accepted procedures," Pusey said in a statement released April 11. "What is now at stake is the freedom to teach, to inquire and to learn," Ford added in a statement released the same day. "Some now insist that 'storm troopers entered University Hall.' This is true, but they entered it at noon on Wednesday, not dawn...
Last week, after lunching with Cohn and Benson Ford, New York Times Columnist William Safire wrote a savory story. He reported that New York Governor Hugh Carey, the longtime suitor of Ford's daughter Anne, had prevailed on Frank Sinatra to meet with Ford. Safire speculated broadly that Ford hoped that Sinatra's gangland contacts would get to Cohn's underworld law clients and persuade the lawyer to lay off. The column raised such a furor that Safire rather grudgingly wrote another piece reporting the many disclaimers...