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Columbia President William McGill said he had been contacted by the CIA several times during his career and once was debriefed after going to a convention in Europe attended by representatives of the Soviet Union...
...McGill said, "The real evil that the CIA has let loose on us is that by engaging in these sort of activities without formal guidelines, they have raised a level of paranoid suspicion in all the universities...
Inevitably, some New Yorkers' solutions to the problem of getting about were spectacularly original. One Brooklyn man telephoned Gloria McGill, owner of Chateau Stables, to request an elephant fitted with a platform and chair to take him from his home to his job on Staten Island. McGill said she would need 30 days to obtain a suitable beast (at $1,200 a day); the customer settled for a horse and carriage to pick...
Says Douglas Hall, a theologian at Montreal's McGill University: "The experiment with secularism finally proved to be too much for the human psyche to cope with, both in the Marxist world and our world. If you begin to doubt that there is some meaning in the process of history, then you get frightened of your own secularity, and you return to religion...
Funding is still uncertain for the program, which still must be approved by Columbia President William McGill. Brager said government grants might be approved for the project...