Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Rosovsky (or "Roso," as he is more commonly known), is dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He could have become president of Yale University or the University of Chicago last winter, but he didn't want to. Instead, Rosovsky worked on revamping Harvard's General Education program. (See story in this section.) Some say that Rosovsky would like to be the next president of Harvard--what other reasons would there be for turning down an offer like that from those nice colleges? P.S.: Rosovsky doesn't talk to anybody...
...should ever have any questions concerning the Law, don't hesitate to call on Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University. Bok brought Steiner with him when he became president in 1971, basically so he would have somebody who would tell him what he could and couldn't do. Right now, Steiner, the CIA and Bok are all very busy trying to figure out what to do about faculty members who pick up a few extra bucks "gathering information...
Fully half the companies that have moved to the county have settled in Stamford, which has changed from a dingy factory town into a showcase for imaginative corporate architecture. General Telephone & Electronics occupies a striking tower, shaped like an inverted pyramid, that has helped to transform a once decaying downtown section. Champion International's offices in the 21-story Landmark Tower overlook buildings forming a complex that includes a sunken plaza used for tennis in the summer, skating in the winter. Continental Oil, Xerox, Texasgulf and General Signal are in High Ridge Park, which, with six modern buildings...
DEATH REVEALED. James Gould Cozzens, 74. successful, cerebral American novelist whose Guard of Honor, the story of a young World War II general faced with a problem of racial discrimination, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949; of pneumonia; on Aug. 9, in Stuart, Fla. After his first novel, Confusion, was published, Cozzens dropped out of Harvard, wrote one more novel, then married a New York literary agent and settled into a life of seclusion and unremitting hard work. In the 13 books that followed he fashioned a stark vision of life, and sometimes a clinical view of love, against meticulously...
...State Supreme Court), and outdoorsmen who camp in the vicinity of Yellowstone National Park's bears are, when attacked, trying to lay the rap on the Park Service. A camper received leg wounds from one of the bears against which the park constantly warns with signs, brochures and general publicity; the victim argued that the Park Service was negligent not to warn more sternly, more thoroughly, more precisely. The Government won that case, but an $87,417 judgment to another victim, who had been illegally camping in the park, was set aside only on appeal...