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Pusey, who is leaving Harvard two years before the mandatory retirementage because of a severe loss of confidence by students, faculty, and administrators in his ability to govern the University effectively, will head the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York...
...after the decision in December. The CRIMSON broke the story of the department's vote five days before Kissinger's tenure was scheduled to lapse, and his formal resignation came the following day. Queried about the CRIMSON report, he played coy and said, "This is a matter for the Govern-ment department and I would not know. I just resigned...
Dumont's neglect of realpolitik as a factor in decision-making leads the reader to believe that blind whim and guerrilla zeal govern Casaros administration. Dumont should have realized that many apparently irrational economic decisions can be understood by other, especially political, criteria: most notably the naive goal-setting which produced last year's sugar harvest fiasco...
...defendant will face charges before the CRR or the Cambridge courts, or both. Guberman said that he would rather see the defendant tried by the CRR than the Cambridge courts. "If Harvard is to govern itself, it would be unfortunate for it to have to go to the criminal courts to prosecute people for harassing witnesses in CRR cases," he said...
...remain a Democrat. A less settling explanation is that offered as pure conjecture by Texas political observers. They suggest Connally's acceptance of the Treasury post is part of a larger plan which stems from Connally's (and Lyndon Johnson's) desire to prevent the more liberal Muskie-Me-Govern camp of the Democratic Party from controlling the 1972 convention. The plan centers on a standout performance by Connally as Secretary of the Treasury (for instance, during the recent dollar crisis or by bailing out Lockheed Aircraft last week); it culminates with Connally, his prestige holstered and his natural exposure...