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Dean Derek C. Bok appointed a Faculty committee early last Fall to study whether Harvard should award the J.D. degree. The committee issued a 16-page memorandum to the Faculty on March 7 recommending the changes the Faculty made today. Bok said "not a single voice was raised against the change" at the Faculty meeting...
...following are excerpts from Part IV of the report of the Wolff Committee, a group of five professors appointed by Dean Ford to study the problems of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Part IV--about one-fifth of the 71 page report--is concerned with the morale of graduate students...
...benign mood came during the glittering dinner party at the Elysée. Impressed that De Gaulle always speaks without notes, Nixon Speechwriter Bill Safire asked the French President how he did it. "I write it out in longhand and then memorize it," De Gaulle replied. "I tear the page out and throw it away and it is in my mind." Pointing to Nixon, De Gaulle asked Safire: "What about him?" Safire answered: "It is statesmen like you who will put us speechwriters out of business." De Gaulle laughed heartily...
...Sirhan's prosecutors, painstakingly winding up their meticulous case last week in Los Angeles after nine days of testimony, the date at the head of the diary's page - May 18, 1968 - underlined the state's contention that the killer who struck down Kennedy almost three weeks later had conceived his act in malice and with long-formulated forethought. Sirhan, distraught that his most intimate secrets would be in the hands of strangers, treated Judge Herbert V. Walker, the police and his own lawyers to some bitter disclosures...
...Syria and Jordan. Fedayeen bombs exploded in Jerusalem and Lydda. Yet the two events that may affect the area's future more than the violence had to do with changes in leadership. In Israel, the sudden death by heart attack of Premier Levi Eshkol (see box following page) opened the possibility of a struggle for succession. In Syria, a forced change in government may help close ranks against Israel in the Arab world...