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...Dukakis comes to Harvard he would follow in the steps of his predecessor, former governor Francis W. Sargent. Sargent taught a seminar at the Institute of Politics following his defeat by Dukakis in the 1974 general election...
Former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis may accept a teaching and administrative post at Harvard, a source close to Dukakis said last night. The source did not, however, confirm reports that Dukakis has definitely decided on Harvard, saying he is considering various offers from area universities...
WNAC-TV reported late last night that a source close to Dukakis said the former governor had accepted an offer from the Kennedy School of Government, but Jonathan Moore, director of the Institute of Politics, refused to confirm or deny the report late last night...
...later, Colonist William Phips, born of a poor Maine family, found the Concepción and hauled up 32 tons of silver from the barnacle-encrusted wreck. In return for one-fifth of the find, a grateful King James II of England knighted his noble servant and made him Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But by the time modern sea hunters began looking into the story, a crucial log from Phips' expedition, with compass bearings for the site, had vanished...
People have talked about making January 15th a national holiday for nearly a decade now, but regrettably the discussion has continued even longer in his home state of Georgia. His widow, Coretta Scott King, in 1971 asked a Georgia governor to declare her husband's birthday a state holiday. Governor Jimmy Carter refused, saying the Federal Government should take the lead. President Jimmy Carter, who has held the nation's highest office for almost two years, yesterday received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize from Mrs. King. Seventeen year veteran Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), told...