Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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*The Corporation this week named Andrew Heiskell, chairman of the board of Time, Inc. and president of the Harvard Board of Overseers, to be a Corporation member.
McKay's Bees has perhaps a roomful of such figures--Henry David Thoreau comments on the biology of Louis Agassiz. Agassiz terrorizes his students and commits indiscretions with his housemaid. John Brown and his gang of Missouri border ruffians wage war on free-staters in Kansas. Even President Pierce gives...
ONETIME vice president and very rich man Nelson Rockefeller was reputed to have rasped: "The bathroom is the great leveller--fella."
Rockefeller was never known as an academic, but do his words ring true in the halls of ivy? Or rather, the stalls of ivy? Two days of vigorous investigation produced nothing on President Bok's lavatorial literary leanings. His secretary, however, allowed that the boss "definitely did not wish to...
President Horner's secretary was equally unamused. "She is too busy today to answer that question," she huffed.