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...hardhats digging up the earth next to Washington's National Gallery of Art last week were Chief Justice Warren Burger and Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who is giving the Government a new $45 million annex to the gallery. Burger's ceremonial spadework was the more convincing-perhaps because of his youthful days as a day laborer working on the Robert Street bridge, which spans the Mississippi. That job also helped develop his judicial prudence. The contractor, he recalls, told him to use three bags less cement in the concrete when the inspectors were not looking. "I used the full...
Pusey-who is retiring from the University next summer to become President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-begins his 21-page report with a two-page catalogue of last year's various political demonstrations and actions, "an almost unbroken series of efforts by various dissident groups to create campus disturbances...
...educational eminence known as Harvard last chose a new president 18 years ago. Then, it selected a little-known ancient history scholar who was president of Wisconsin's tiny Lawrence College, Nathan Marsh Pusey. Pusey will leave Harvard in June to head the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and this week the university's dual boards of seven corporation members and 29 overseers meet to end eleven months of speculation over his successor. On the eve of the announcement, all signs pointed to another complex man without national prominence: Derek Curtis Bok, 40, dean of the Harvard Law School...
...copped out, leader Michael Ansara answers helplessly, "This is the only way we could keep our tax deduction and our Ford Foundation grant. Below, ANSARA receives check for $50,000 from McGEORGE BUNDY (smiling), president of the Ford Foundation (assers: $21/2 billion), as NATHAN PUSEY (pouting), president of the Mellon Foundation (assets: $600 million), looks...
...lobby and go up to television screens that show only the faces of tellers, who are safely locked away on the second floor. All transactions are conducted through an intercom and pneumatic tubes. One unit with tube attachments costs from $11,000 to $23,000. Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank is installing an expensive computer-controlled alarm network that connects all its branches with the central office and transmits different signals for a burglary or a holdup. Some bankers who want to stay open at night but are worried about robberies after dark get around the threat by installing automatic...