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Harvard's most precious historical documents are secured two floors underground behind a steel door with a combination lock. There, they are regularly inspected by Harley P. Holden, the archives' curator. "I like to check these every few days," Holden says, as he opens up the large red folder that contains Harvard's original charter, drafted in 1650 but now stained and nearly illegible...
...charter has been removed from the archives for every Harvard president's inauguration although sometimes this maneuver can be tricky. In 1971, when President Bok was sworn into office. Holden and a convoy of University officials had to escort the document to University Hall via underground steam tunnels, out of fear that student protestors might damage the relic. (The mood of students at the inauguration proved so congenial, Holden recalls, that he made the return trip above ground...
Another unusual excursion Holden has had occasion to make came shortly after the 1969 student takeover of University Hall, when he wandered around the Yard collecting leaflets and tearing from the trees. Today, the papers are together with Thoreau's diary in the Archives' collection of student memorabilia...
...smiling and dancing" with glee at the prospect of performing the historic autopsy on Robert Kennedy-was never corroborated. The county board muzzled him in January because it thought he had been too quick to speculate about the murky circumstances surrounding the deaths of Natalie Wood and William Holden...
...William Holden, 63, whose rugged good looks and raspy baritone graced more than 50 films, including Sunset Boulevard, Picnic, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Network. He won an Oscar in 1953 for his hard-bitten prisoner of war in Stalag...