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...first day as acting president of San Francisco State College, 4½ years ago, S.I. Hayakawa, wearing a plaid tam-o'-shanter, jumped on top of a student striker's sound truck and ripped out the loudspeaker wires. Although he cooled the campus, he managed to stir up some controversy of his own. Student activists have been trying unsuccessfully to stick him and the trustees with a federal suit alleging embezzlement, bribery, fraud, racial discrimination, lack of due process and misappropriation of student funds...
...respect and admire him very much. And I'm not about to let any rumors interfere with my right to select my own friends." Quietly, Agnew has been visiting compatible intellectuals, possibly in search of stimulation on some of the deeper emerging national issues. They include Semanticist S.I. Hayakawa, Futurist Herman Kahn and Historian Daniel Boorstin...
Jackie divorces Aristotle Onassis "as a protest against the repressive policies of the current Greek regime." Below she is seen nightclubbing in New York with new beaux (l. to r.) RICHARD DALEY, S.I. HAYAKAWA and FRANCISCO FRANCO...
There was always the chance that the choice of a new president could turn out to be yet another battle-ground or perhaps a new kind of peace table. Over the summer, when the news leaked out that John Gardner and S. I. Hayakawa led the tally of suggestions from the Spring letters of inquiry, the ballot-box psychology started creeping in, but was quickly squelched by long rounds of meetings and interviews between Corporation members and student-faculty groups. Corporation members assured the groups that the search would be more than a popularity poll among letter writing alumni...
...What with Harvard looking for a new president, perhaps it's not the best time for my name to be splashed all over the CRIMSON." But like it or not, Brewster's name has been mentioned (if not splashed) practically everywhere else. With the possible exception of S. I. Hayakawa, he is the best-known college president in America. With dozens of colleges looking for male leaders, his national reputation has followed three of the four steps traditionally ascribed to the rise and fall of a movie star: I. "Who's Kingman Brewster?" II. "Get me Kingman Brewster...