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Central to Holcombe's personal reinstatement drive is his contention that he will not be able to obtain a fair dispensation of his case through such channels. Edward W. Powers, director of employee relations, has repeatedly stated that he deplores Holcombe and Balsam's tactic of making public the details of the dispute before an internal University investigation is completed...
Game Plan for Disaster chronicles the mushrooming use of executive privilege by the Nixon administration to obtain greater power while it was concurrently hiding the means of gaining that power. From the outset of the author's short-lived government experience through the Watergate stonewalling, Nixon and his boys--especially his boys, Mollenhoff suggests--utilized the tool of executive privilege out of misplaced zeal, naively blind to the processes and ethics of government. An addiction which led to their downfall...
...class had graduated with honors and that seventy-three people had received Summas, it was possible to question how much of an honor it was to graduate from Harvard with honors. Quite to the contrary, Professor Mansfield thought it could only be considered a dishonor not to obtain the degree with honors. Professor Mansfield wondered whether it wasn't past time when some concerted action on the matter was required, since the shape of the curve in honors had ceased to be that of a bell and had come to resemble a swelled head...
...Harvard Police officer said yesterday the woman may have escaped from a mental hospital. "We had to arrest her so she could obtain medical help." The woman was taken to Cambridge Hospital...
...Pictures Industries, Inc. Vice President Burton R. Marcus concedes that the current law has bred abuses that "constitute a rip-off and ought to be eliminated." Like other motion-picture executives, however, he is afraid that Congress may enact legislation that would damage the industry's ability to obtain conventional outside financing...