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...This is a bigger deal than just selling tickets," said University spokesman Joe Wrinn. "[The purpose] is to expose the public to the wonderful variety of content at Harvard...
...Memorial Hall region with closed areas marked off was released on Thursday morning in the Harvard University Gazette, which had a deadline for the map on Wednesday evening. It was compiled by Gazette editor John Lenger and Director of the News Office Joe Wrinn based on information from the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and other unnamed sources. The HUPD, unlike the Cambridge and even Boston Police, avoided contact with the rally organizers both before and after Saturday Nov. 1. Moreover, even after the rally, members of the University administration have been referring all our inquiries to HUPD Chief Francis...
...through "campaign contributions from the corrupt Teamsters Union pension fund." G. Robert Blakey, a Mafia expert and former federal prosecutor, confirmed to TIME what he told Hersh--that FBI bugs picked up Mob conversations about the deal. "The substance of it was that money went to the campaign through [Joe Kennedy]," says Blakey. "There was an expectation [by the mobsters that] life would be better because...
...Hersh is also willing to put testimony, hearsay and speculation into close proximity to one another, then declare that they add up to fact. So Hersh says Joe Kennedy clandestinely poured $2 million into the West Virginia primary that clinched the Democratic nomination for his son. The entire Democratic outlay for the national campaign in 1960 has been estimated at around $10 million. But while Hersh tells a number of stories about money being handed around--all of them interesting, some of them plausible--he never explains how he arrived at that whopping figure. Charles Peters, editor in chief...
There are heroes here: Paul Bunker, the only Army player to make Walter Camp's All-America team at two different positions, who died in a Japanese pow camp after smuggling his unit's flag past his captors; Ed White, who walked in space and died in Apollo 1; Joe Stilwell of China; Lucius Clay of the Berlin airlift; George Goethals of the Panama Canal. The biggest monument, however, a large pyramid, belongs to a general named Egbert Viele. An eminent engineer, he helped design the cemetery, which perhaps explains his prominence. The entrance to the pyramid is guarded...