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...Hewlett Foundation has donated $1 million to Harvard to establish the first endowed chair in public policy and administration at the Kennedy School of Government...
William R. Hewlett, president of the Hewlett-Packard Company and founder of the newly-formed Hewlett foundation, consulted with Bok and Price before making the donation...
James ("Big Jim") Thompson, 40, who in four years as U.S. Attorney put dozens of Mayor Daley's underlings into the slammer for various forms of corruption, easily knocked off another Daley lieutenant, jowly Democrat Michael Hewlett, to win the state's governorship by more than a million votes. A Republican liberal, Thompson rolled up heavy majorities in conservative downstate Illinois and Chicago's suburbs; he even made inroads into the traditionally Democratic black wards of Chicago...
With his somewhat wooden speaking style, Thompson campaigned intelligently and energetically seven days a week. The strapping (6 ft. 6 in., 200 Ibs.) Thompson also put on slacks and cowboy boots to appear more folksy. He pictured the genial but ineffectual Hewlett, who had been Illinois' secretary of state, as the embodiment of old-style politics. Thompson now has his work cut out for him: he has only a two-year term and faces a cantankerous legislature controlled by the Democrats. But his smashing win has catapulted him into national prominence as a possible Republican presidential contender...
...Hewlett's attempts to tarnish his foe by accusing him, without offering proof, of "fixing" a case when he was prosecutor and of being paid $50,000 by a law firm to run for Governor have fizzled and, in the latter case, boomeranged. The allegation simply reopened an issue Walker exploited in the primary: that Hewlett accepted $15,000 annually from a steel company while he was on the state payroll. "How else are you going to raise a family of six children and take care of a 90-year-old mother-in-law?" Hewlett asks...