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Steven A. Ballmer, Paul L. Bixby, Stephen J. Chapman, Francis J. Connolly, Jefferson Flanders, Robert B. James, Jr., Sharon E. Jones, Grover G. Norquist, William L. Pollak, Mark D. Stegall
James R. Schlesinger '50, former Secretary of Defense, will discuss United States-USSR relations at the annual Gustav Pollak Lecture on Research in Government on April 13, in the Science Center...
...Pollak committee invited Schlesinger to speak because of his recent prominence with respect to national security policy, Harvey Brooks, an advisor to one of the groups sponsoring the lecture, said yesterday...
Even Justice Stanley Reed, who came nearest to dissenting, declared afterward that if this was not the most significant judgment in the history of the court, it came very close to it. Louis H. Pollak, later a dean of Yale Law School, called the Brown decision "probably the most important governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation." Richard Kluger goes even farther. He puts this revolutionary ruling-deliberately phrased in bland language and read in a matter-of-fact voice by a moderate Republican from California-at the heart of 200 years of American history...
Four months ago, Pollak published a broadside by Novelist Sol Yurick that blasted U.S. journalism for not accepting the Symbionese Liberation Army on its own terms. Yurick pursued the absurd argument that if the S.L.A. called a kidnaping an "arrest," the press should go along; otherwise, journalists were guilty of Establishment bias. For the current issue, Author Joseph Epstein (Divorced in America) has written an essay called "The Media as Villain." In dis cussing journalism's problems, he casually laid on some heavy indictments...