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...rapidly rising star both at Harvard and in his hometown of Cleveland. The newest face on the Corporation during the turmoil of 1969, Calkins soon became the best known, taking over as de facto public spokesman for the administration. His urbane wit supplanted the isolated and hostile President Pusey on local TV shows and in frequent meetings around the University...
...bubble, if indeed it had ever existed, soon collapsed. The voters of Cleveland decisively threw Calkins off the School Board and Harvard replaced Pusey with President Bok, a man who needed no public relations spokesman. Professors Blum and Slichter, Bok, and Treasurer George Putnam all became new faces on the Corporation. Perhaps Harvard and Cleveland, like the rest of the country, was tired of dynamic and glamorous men; more likely the Calkins boomlet reflected few of Calkin's real desires...
...donors for the center. Harry F. Colt, director of the University development office, said last week that his office had spent more time last year on the cultural center fund-raising project than any other. Yet the fact remains that the University finds millions of dollars for the Pusey Library and Canaday Hall and not a cent for the cultural center...
...Vietnam escalation, tore a page from the style books of the Old Mole and the Crimson and published its own set of stolen documents. The Pentagon Papers set off a chain of overreaction in the White House that eventually destroyed Richard Nixon and his clique, as surely as Pusey's overreaction destroyed...
...they mention the goddamned Pusey Library they won't get a red cent, but if the pitch relies on memories of eleven thousand people in Harvard Stadium roaring their approval of the resolution, "This body repudiates the right of the Corporation to close down our University," then they'll have me. Tears will well up in my eyes, I'll reach for my checkbook, and "Fair Harvard" will echo in my mind