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...isolation also gives way to a certain reticence, though to varying degrees. Robert Sullivan, a history tutor in Kirkland House, shies away from discussing his term of Army duty in South Vietnam. "I'm sorry to be disobliging, but although I'm something of a fount of Saigon tales, I don't think my experiences with the ancien regime are worthy of splashing across the newspaper page at the breakfast table." Sullivan says. "I was stationed in Saigon, but never carried a rifle...
...story of the sixties at Harvard, and at many other institutions as well, could not be understood as an exceptional event. Rather, Harvard, as the oldest and pre-eminent American university, had fount itself intensely involved in almost every wave and type of controversy that has run through American higher education. If the sixties taught any lesson to those participating in American collegiate life, it is that people who do not know their own history cannot know on what road they are. Since politics, conventional and unconventional, conservative and radical, will continue in the university world as long as such...
...Gould), Marlowe becomes a chain-smoking shlemiel. Gould looks less like a private eye than like a junkie half on the nod slouching along Sunset Strip looking for a fix. The only dope here is Marlowe himself. He stumbles into a job of playing wet nurse to an alcoholic fount of bestsellers (Sterling Hayden) whose ice-maiden wife (Nina Van Pallandt, late of the Clifford Irving/Howard Hughes headlines) plays at being concerned about his welfare...
...fount of military research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the nation's major defense contractors. Military money makes up a big part of the university's budget, but Provost Jerome B. Wiesner is far from pleased. He thinks M.I.T. is too much in thrall to military-industrial interests -and time after time he has snapped at the hands that feed his university. As President Kennedy's science adviser, he fought for the nuclear test-ban treaty, opposed manned lunar exploration and launched one of the first big probes of dangerous pesticides. A critic...
...Pioneer Retires California's Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor is widely regarded as one of the greatest judges who never sat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Regret is hardly in order. A fount of creative federalism. Traynor has spent 30 years writing 930 opinions that often put the California Supreme Court far ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court on issues ranging from racial discrimination to contract doctrine. Now almost 70, Traynor has just announced that he will retire...