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...trustees are Jane Carpenter Bradley '49, a director of Fiduciary Trust Company in Boston; Elizabeth R. Heffernan '75, a student at Georgetown University Law Center; Ruth B. Helman '43, a former president of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association; Ellen LaFollette '54, an editor and teacher of American Literature; Mary Anne Schwalbe '55, associate dean of admissions and financial aid; and Alfred R. Stern, a consultant to Warner Communications...
John Hanley, chairman of Monsanto Co., remembers his moment of conversion. Last March, at a Citibank board meeting in Manhattan, he heard a Georgetown University political analyst expound on America's deteriorating position in the world. As Hanley recalls, "I went home to St. Louis and sat down alone in my office and listed all the candidates from both parties who could conceivably run. Never mind if we could elect him, but who would have the best chance of changing the situation? It was clear as a bell to me that it was John Connally. I sent...
...heels of the Weber decision in June, which held that employers could give job preference to blacks to remedy "manifest racial imbalance" in the work force, the busing cases signal the court's strong support for affirmative action. For blacks, at least, the message is clear. Says Georgetown University Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "With the Warren Court you could say, 'Blacks win.' Now you can begin to say of the Burger Court, 'Blacks...
...Georgetown University, noted for its school of foreign service, was evenhanded in drawing up awards. Last year the university honored the Israeli ambassador, Simcha Dinitz. So this year the nod went to Ashraf Ghorbal, 54, Cairo's Ambassador to Washington. Ghorbal was hailed by Georgetown as "a genuine member of the international cathedral of ideas." The ambassador, who stands a slight 5 ft. 3 in., was diplomatically not paired in the academic procession with fellow doctor of humane letters and former Boston Celtics Player-Coach Bill Russell, who towers...
...Buchwald, humorist, at Georgetown University: "I know many of you are bitter at our generation for using all of the oil reserves. But I would like to remind you of one thing. It was our oil and our gas, and we could do anything we wanted with it. Your generation has to find its own oil and gas reserves...