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...commemorate Washington's Birthday, Bok lays off half the Buildings and Grounds Department, all Harvard employees from New Jersey, and basketball coach Tom "Satch" Sanders. "I cannot tell a lie," Bok explains. "He was just too fucking tall." Martin Peretz, master of South House, sells The New Republic and buys the Harvard Independent...
...first trial of Martin Peretz's new program of investigative reporting, an Independent editor discovers Archie C. Epps III, dean of Students, working, three months after Bok laid off all blacks. "They never noticed me before," Epps moans. "We had a beautiful relationship: I didn't bother Harvard, and it didn't bother me." Peretz awards himself a Pulitzer prize. "Liberals like myself excel at investigative reporting," he comments...
...second trial of Martin Peretz's investigative reporting policy, an Independent editor discovers that Stephen S.J. Hall's third name is Jose, and that Hall is still working, two months after Bok laid off all people with Spanish surnames. Hall agrees to go quietly. "If Roberto Ungar counts, so do I," he says. "El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido...
Last March the New Republic was bought for $380,000 by Martin Peretz, 35, a maverick-leftist lecturer in social science at Harvard with a rich wife (Singer sewing machines) and an activist's belief in redistributing wealth. At the time of the purchase, press observers expected early trouble for the former owner and still editor, Gilbert Harrison, 59, a high-minded, unabrasive, older-style liberal and leader in the antiwar and "Dump L.B.J." movements...
Last week trouble abruptly surfaced. Peretz, just before departing for a two-week holiday in Spain, admitted that "there have been tensions" between him and Harrison about "how the magazine should move" but denied that he had stripped Harrison of the power to assign articles. Harrison was ducking reports of his impending departure. Said one knowledgeable source: "It's a bad situation." At week's end Harrison was still in charge, but chances are that the old New Republic will never be quite the same again...