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...society that the leading colleges and universities deliberately seek and honor the "oddball" candidate for admission. It is no wonder that these same institutions are plagued by sit-ins, riots, sex orgies and drugs, for this is the world of the oddball, who has no respect or responsibility toward law and order...
Born in Clarksburg, W. Va., Vance attended Connecticut's Kent School, then studied economics at Yale, where his tall, lanky frame suggested his nickname: Spider. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1942, he joined the Navy, served on destroyers in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II. In 1947 he joined a Manhattan law firm...
McNamara, before leaving the Cabinet, recommended Vance as his successor, and the President probably agreed with the choice. But last summer Vance was forced to abandon his twelve-hour work days at the Pentagon because of an irksome back ailment. He returned to law practice in Manhattan, although repeated summonses to Washington for troubleshooting missions scarcely left him time for his legal career. The grueling Paris negotiations will tax Vance's health even more severely than his previous assignments. Despite the orthopedic brace he wears, his back is often so painful that he cannot bend to tie his shoelaces...
Beholder & Beneficiary. The contest was close: Rockefeller, 31.1%; Volpe, 30%; Nixon, 26.2%, with the balance scattered. Under a new state law, Rockefeller gets all 34 convention votes on the first ballot-after that delegates are free to switch. While a minor victory in terms of delegate strength, it had a psychological impact. One of the strongest anti-Nixon arguments within the party is that Rockefeller, while not an orthodox Republican, is a vote-getting Republican, and the Bay State vote gave that thesis a little lift...
Harvard's contacts with Boston prospered. In 1966, the Ed School subcontracted with the Boston Public Facilities Department to design 14 new ghetto schools. The project, forced on Boston by the Racial Imbalance Law, was directed at Harvard's end by Robert H. Anderson, professor of Education, who dubbed the effort Operation Schoolhouse. Other programs took Harvard faculty as far as Wilmington and St. Paul...