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Officials from HEW's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) agreed to meet with the Task Force members to discuss a 20-page analysis compiled by the Task Force covering alleged University non-compliance with the 1975 Harvard Affirmative Action Plan in 18 departments of the Faculty, the Medical School, the Business School, the School of Public Health and the personnel office...
...Task Force submitted the analysis to John G. Bynoe, regional director of the OCR, last Monday in order to "give the compliance review team guidance as to where to look" for possible violations of affirmative action guidelines, one Task Force member who attended the meeting with OCR said yesterday...
...Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch announced the replacement of Leon Panetta, the ousted Office of Civil Rights chief, with J. Stanley Pottinger, 30, a lawyer in HEW's San Francisco regional office. The appointment did nothing to soothe the anger of those who had supported Panetta. Two OCR officials resigned, 125 staff members sent the President a 1etter expressing "bitter disappointment" with the Administration's performance on civil rights, and' 1,800 departmental employees signed a petition, titled "Bring Us Together," asking Finch for clarification of HEW's position on civil rights...
...into Mr. OCR's new boss, William Yandell Elliott, is big (6 ft. 2 in.), barrel-chested, fond of using his booming voice. Born in Tennessee, he went to Vanderbilt University, left it to serve abroad in World War I as a field artillery lieutenant. Later, as a Rhodes scholar, he distinguished himself by 1) earning a D. Phil.,* 2) exploding a giant firecracker behind the dignified dean of Balliol College. He taught at the University of California, later moved to Harvard as associate professor of government. Trying his hand at a textbook for his classes, he found that...
...Office of Civilian Requirements was talking hopefully of supplying pent-up demands for many a much-missed article of everyday life. It still plans soon to increase the manufacture of alarm clocks, let a score of other minor items dribble out. But for the most part, OCR has now decided to keep the lid on tight until it becomes certain that renewed civilian manufactures will not interfere with the invasion of Europe...