Word: kurth
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...reconciliation between the maternal and paternal sides of the Hughes clan. At the Las Vegas meeting, William Lummis, who bears a striking resemblance to Hughes as a young man, was elected chairman of Summa. Lummis worked for years as a lawyer in the Houston firm of Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, which has handled Hughes family matters for half a century. Bill Gay was elected president, and the rest of the penthouse old guard retained titles in the executive hierarchy...
...matriarch is the aged Mrs. Frederick Lummis, a Wellesley graduate (1911) who is the widow of a physician. Her son, William Rice Lummis, is a member of the prestigious Houston law firm of Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, which has handled the Hughes family's private matters for half a century. There are three other Lummis children, all with at least potential claims to Hughes' estate: Frederick Rice Lummis Jr., a physician; Annette Neff, wife of a Houston banker; and Allene Russell, a Boston suburbanite. Another aunt has died, but three of her children could be claimants...
WHATEVER HIS reasons, Dunlop last Fall vetoed the Government Department's recommendation to promote two assistant professors, Robert L. Jervis and James R. Kurth, to the rank of associate professor. You can only promote one, Dunlop told Department chairman James Q. Wilson. When Wilson then presented a Department recommendation to promote Jervis and let Kurth go, supporters of the more radical Kurth protested vehemently. After a couple of months of bickering, Dunlop finally agreed to let the two promotions go through...
Both Jervis and Kurth specialize in international relations. Dunlop's original reluctance to promote two men and let them compete for one vacancy may stem from his recognition that in the field of international relations, only half a vacancy exists. Presumably, both Kurth and Jervis are now vying for the spot that Henry A. Kissinger '50 once occupied. But Kissinger is only half gone. Although Dunlop says, "As far as I'm concerned he has resigned." the chairman of the Government Department says that Kissinger can return to his place if, sometime in November, he communicates his intention to leave...
...matter what happens, Kurth and Jervis are relatively fortunate. If they were in the History Department, they would probably be out looking for jobs. The History Department has never appointed a non-tenured associate professor. By interpreting the Dunlop report's guidelines so strictly, the Department in effect has cut a man's trial period down to four years. Under the old system, an instructor who showed promise in his first couple of years would be rehired and would have five additional years to prove himself before his contract came up for review. Today a man with a Ph.D. starts...