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Senator Eugene J. McCarthy arrived in Cambridge--where he started his campaign for the presidency--yesterday for a one-day visit. He was met at Logan Airport by John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, then whisked off to Cambridge for meetings...
Harvard gave honorary degrees also to John H. Finley '25, retiring as Master of Eliot House; and two Law School alumni, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz and Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the United States Supreme Court...
Others receiving degrees at Commencement exercises today were Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Pedro Gerardo Beltran, publisher of La Prensa in Lima, Peru; Livingston T. Merchant, U. S. career diplomat; J. E. Wallace Sterling, retiring president of Stanford University; and two scientists--Nobel laureate Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin and geneticist-chemist Marshall W. Nirenberg...
...William J. Brennan Jr. was appointed to the Supreme Court in October, 1956 by President Eisenhower. Born in Newark in 1906, he graduated from Penn in 1928, and Harvard Law in 1931, and became first a labor lawyer and later a judge in New Jersey. At an alumni luncheon at Harvard Law School yesterday, Brennan cited a breakdown in communication between dissenters and the decision-makers in this country...
...J. E. Wallace Sterling is an historian who is retiring this year after 19 years as president of Stanford University. He was recently president of the Association of American Universities...