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Derek Curtis Bok, 44, president of Harvard, is a scion of the Curtis publishing family and son-in-law of Swedish Sociologists Gunnar and Alva Myrdal. Bok graduated from Stanford and Harvard Law, studied in Paris as a Fulbright scholar, collected a graduate economics degree from George Washington University. A top labor-law specialist, he was named dean of Harvard Law in 1968, president of the university three years later. Democrat Bok helped organize opposition to Harrold Carswell's Supreme Court nomination, was among the academicians who went to Washington to protest the 1970 Cambodia invasion...
...Arkansas' Dale Bumpers [June 10] and the voters of his state have shortsightedly deprived the rest of the nation. Bill Fulbright was a Senator...
...stay with it. You'll get a fair hearing.' " In saltier fashion, 81-year-old George Aiken, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, commented: "The goddam fool. Can't he take it? Why that's part of the business -being criticized." Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, advised "everyone in this distracted city to calm down...
...embarrassment of riches. Since Columnist Maxene Cheshire disclosed in May that there were discrepancies in the reporting of gifts received by Pat Nixon and her daughters, jewel boxes all over official Washington have been emptied. Among those hurriedly delivering diamonds, rubies and emeralds to the gifts office were Betty Fulbright, wife of Senator J. William, whose Foreign Relations Committee drafted the 1966 law that does not permit officials or their families to accept gifts worth more than $50. The greatest surprise came when Hubert Humphrey turned in a 7.9 carat diamond estimated to be worth more than $100,000. Presented...
...Senator Fulbright sponsored a highly successful international exchange program for students and scholars. The fellowships, appropriately, are known as "Fulbrights...