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Columbia President Grayson Kirk resigned in June 1968-two months after that university's famous disruption...
...glad it's over," said Columbia University Chemistry Professor Ronald C. D. Breslow as he hoisted a laboratory beaker full of champagne last week. Breslow was toasting the fact that after a frustrating 18-month search, Columbia had finally found a permanent successor to Grayson Kirk, who resigned the presidency in 1968 following violent campus disorders. The man who has agreed to take over from Interim President Andrew Cordier next fall: William J. McGill, 47, chancellor of the University of California at San Diego...
...weeks that followed, Pusey escaped ?? of the personal-castigation that fell on other ?ulty members and administrators. Franklin ?? was held responsible for the infamous "R?? Letter"; Henry Rosovsky became a scapegoa? the Afro-American Studies Program. But th? it all, Pusey never became the Grayson Kir? S. I. Hayakawa of Cambridge. It's hard to ?? exactly why Pusey did not become more of a tar? Perhaps the radical students were too sophistica? to waste their attack on one man; perhaps th? knew Pusey would leave anyway in two or three years...
...revolution from the top is what it will take to tame the unions, Victor Grayson Hardie Feather may be just the man to bring it off. He has the name,* and the background. The son of a sometime furniture polisher and full-time pacifist, Feather was born in the milling town of Bradford and went to work filling flour sacks at 14. He worked nights on a local Socialist paper, where he used to talk politics with the publisher's daughter, who is now Minister of Employment and Productivity, Barbara Castle. At 29, choosing unionism "because I wanted...
...roll call of British labor pioneers: Victor Grayson became Britain's first independently elected Labor Member of Parliament in 1908. Keir Hardie founded the Independent Labor Party...