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The state legislature should find no objection to a bill recently endorsed by the University aimed at eliminating an old anachronism in the voting procedure for overseers. The bill, field in December by two legislators, would make it possible for alumni to vote in overseer elections immediately after graduation; they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overseer Anachronism | 1/11/1967 | See Source »

Even with a highball from the appeals court, the Penn Central will have to maintain its milk-train speed for a while. The protesting railroads announced that they were taking the case to the Supreme Court; they petitioned Justice John Harlan, who as judicial overseer of the U.S. Second Circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Merging at Milk-Train Speed | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Too Much Glory? It takes longer to produce an entirely new, minority-balanced history, and the first, Benziger Brothers' Land of the Free, is kicking up a storm. It says that "in a few instances, an aroused slave killed a hated overseer or his master." Later, it reports that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Textbooks: Big Drive for Balance | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Died. Alexander Ernst von Falkenhausen, 88, German general, a Prussian Junker who was military overseer of Belgium and Northern France during World War II until his complicity in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler ended his career, then despite his claim to anti-Nazism, was convicted as a war criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 12, 1966 | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

Dissenting justice Paul C. Reardon '32, who was recently elected a Harvard Overseer, joined by justice Paul G. Kirk '26, called the book "literary sewage." The two were bitterly critical of the majority for relying on the testimony of professors from Harvard, Wellesley, and M.I.T. and other experts who said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naked Lunch Judged Not Legally Obscene | 7/12/1966 | See Source »

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