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...have traditionally been granted the right to "legislative oversight" of agencies that they have recommended, and 2) it was his own Armed Services Committee that had approved the birth of the CIA in 1947. "Unless the committee of which I am chairman has been derelict in its duty," the Georgian said pointedly, "there is no justification whatever for any other committee muscling in." Though a floor vote on the issue was yet to come, it seemed hardly likely that anyone would be so bold as to charge the venerable Richard Russell with dereliction...
...SCENE FIVE. A brightly lit Georgian town house in Kensington, with limousines, M.G.s and Jags rolling up. Gamine Leslie Caron, 34, unquestionably this season's most with-it hostess (the last party ran from Vanessa Redgrave and John Huston to the Henry Fords), awaits this Saturday's guests. There are shrieks of "darling!" and elaborate embraces for Marlon Brando, Prince Stanislas Radziwill and Lee, Roddy McDowall, Terry Southern, Francoise Sagan and Barbra Streisand (who opens in Funny Girl this week). Dame Margot Fonteyn is due. Warren Beatty, Caron's most recent co-star (in Promise Her Anything...
Some time before, according to legend, the Cambridge Fire Department had sought to build a fire station in contemporary style on the triangle across from Mem Hall, but was told by the University that it would clash with the older building. The department built it in Georgian style instead--and then the University went ahead and built Burr Hall, to the firemen's chagrin. When the fire broke out, the story goes, they watched the tower burning from across the street and told inquirers that they didn't have enough water pressure to reach the blaze...
Kirkland fits into neither, or, one might say, both of these classifications. Graced by two Georgian courtyards, a pre-revolutionary wood-frame House library, and the College's most elegant dining hall, Kirkland is never-theless best noted for its vocal, creative membership, its cooperative but un-restrictive administration, and its active, accessible House staff. Yet despite the informal atmosphere, House spirit is extraordinarily strong...
Quincy was the first House to consciously break with the tradition of elegant Harvardiana. One need not apologize for Quincy's modernity: it was all part of the plan. Built in 1959, Quincy extended and adapted the Georgian-modeled House system to the needs and demands of Har- vard's increasingly national character...