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...Well I'll be darned," George Putnam Jr. '49, Harvard treasurer, said yesterday, "I thought Chase turned down that job weeks ago," he added...
...Putnam said it was too soon to know who will replace Peterson, even on a temporary basis, but said that such officials as Alfred M. Gibbens, director of the Development Office, are "quite capable of holding the world together...
David A. Aloian '49, the new executive director of the Associated Harvard Alumni, and Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, a member of the Harvard Corporation who will probably chair the capital drive, will also help smooth over any transition period, Putnam said...
...South African people, Rather, it attempts to develop a case-by-case analysis, employing vague mechanisms and criteria. The Corporation argues that companies which operate in South Africa "should follow...practices that will ameliorate the effects of apartheid." [emphasis added] Obviously, President Bok, Hugh A. Calkins '45, George Putnam '49, Treasurer of the University, and the Corporation members have not recognized that the people of South Africa desire to end apartheid, not ameliorate its effects...
While most Corporation members decline to speculate on what position the Corporation will take on the issue, Putnam says he believes the Corporation will agree with the vast majority of the ACSR report and will "go farther on the banks." Although he is not a member of the four-man investment subcommittee, Bok has involved himself on the issue because the full Corporation makes all major policy decisions for the University. Bok, as president, is the most influential Corporation member, and because he has over the years acquired a reputation for being one of the more liberal members...