Word: potters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birth of Stephen Potter '61, '62 was one of those rare accidents of story: Some people are obviously born to fill a definite place in society, but it is given only to the very few to born to fill a place on a door...
...which each contained the same number of letters, were aligned with aesthetic precision in space on the door which had been designed for four names. They were physicists, and the solution to their spacial problem was apparent at once. From this inauspicious beginning emerged a unique Harvard career. Stephen Potter never became a Harvard legend, for his creators never sought or received the fame of the Princeton undergraduates who got a non-existent student admitted to college. Most people who saw--and are still seeing--Stephen's name never had any idea that he had no body. Stephen's physical...
...Potter Described...
...roommates are still Harvard graduate students, and the third has disappeared. Talking to the two gives you almost no idea that Potter was not their real roommate. He was, both agree, about 6 ft. 1 in.; 180 lbs.; light brown hair; from Newton, Iowa; and "extremely intelligent"--he graduated summa. He was also "eccentric, egotistical and shy." "Now when did he write that letter?" one asks the other. "Didn't he write it around November?" he answers...
...Supreme Court sent the case back to Bootle's court for trial. The majority opinion, written by Justice Potter Stewart, pointed out that "the constitutional right to travel from one state to another occupies a position fundamental to the concept of our Federal Union." He wrote that federal law protects "persons, as well as commodities," and that if the predominant purpose of a plot is to block interstate travel, "then, whether or not motivated by racial discrimination, the conspiracy becomes a proper object of the federal...