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...regressive their policies are. There may be a slight alteration of this make-up over time, but if Harvard ever does decide to divest itself of its Gulf Oils, Middle South Utilities and other controversial stocks, the process will be eternally slow. Cabot and Putnam are fine Boston gentlemen, bred in the best Harvard tradition. They still adhere to the norms of financial management followed by the great money houses of New York and Boston...
...considered that a compliment," St. Clair said in an interview last week. Is it a compliment when applied to his handling of Nixon's case, too? "Positively," he said. "These gentlemen don't need causists. They need someone to represent them with some objectivity." The following are excerpts from that interview...
...sports of the privileged, were played in private enclaves where family mattered more than class. Privacy was a given of the rich, reserve the rule of deportment, and understatement the temper of the play. Sports as spectacle--their special sports, that is--was unthinkable. The contests were between gentlemen and were paradigms of what civilization was all about...
...exactly at eleven, as many servants as there are of gentlemen and ladies, come in with each of them two wax candles, and in procession we follow to the gallery at the head of the great staircase, and file off of different rooms. This is high life: but I would not have parted with my humble cottage at Milton for the sake...
Senator Sam Ervin. "[Expletive deleted] He's got Baker totally toppled over to him. Ervin works harder than most of our Southern gentlemen...