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...commemoration he so richly deserved, and it also furthered the study of his wide interests in the humanities. According to the bequest, the Chair is supposed to alternate each year between "the various literatures" in one group and the Fine Arts and Music in another. Each year an ad hoc committee of five is appointed by Harvard's president to decide on the following year's visiting professor. Four members, three of whom are associated with the group in whose field the lectureship falls that year, and one from the other group, are chosen from the Faculty of Arts...
...pressure has been continually building on Lon Nol to resign or at least leave the country. The majority of his generals have been increasingly open in urging the President to go. So have been most of the cabinet and nearly all members of the bicameral National Assembly. An ad hoc coalition of top Cabinet and military leaders, in frequent audiences with Lon Nol, have been trying to convince him that his continued presence in the capital could lead to an eventual bloodbath...
...million requested by the President. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger argued that if the U.S. had been "less niggardly" toward South Viet Nam, Thieu would not have to give up the provinces. To support that point, White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen displayed an article from the Hanoi journal Hoc Tap that seemed to tie the current Communist offensive to a decline in the capability of Saigon's forces...
Both Sinsabaugh and Gerald Meisel, a third-year law student and a co-chairman of the ad hoc committee, said that members revise the rules almost every year...
Nancy J. Sinsabaugh '76, chairwoman of the SAC, said yesterday that the ad hoc committee would attempt to clarify "ambiguities" in the policy of re-admitting old members and suspending normal procedure...