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...April 1971, Yale President Kingman Brewster decided that Yale College badly needed "a coherant, purposive articulation of the goals of education at Yale." He asked Robert A. Dahl, a professor of Government, to chair a blue-ribbon committee of five faculty and administrators and produce "broad recommendations concerning the future of Yale College over the next 20 years...
...were a councilor now, Crane says, there would be a library and a museum constructed already, insead of just tentative plans for half the project. "We'd appoint a blue ribbon committee to get the facts--bring in the heavyweights. People like Archie Cox, unbiased people, a few other Cantabs," Crane says...
...yellow ribbon around the bars on Patty Hearst's Alameda County jail cell, but a dozen yellow roses from the FBI stretches my imagination...
...Jewish immigrants, he has made a name for himself as a Pulitzer-prizewinning biographer, essayist and playwright. LIFE has commissioned him to write an intimate article on Bobby Kennedy. The French government has honored him with an Order of the Chevalier, which entitles him to wear a green ribbon in his lapel. As it turns out, the decoration is about as prestigious as the alligator on a tennis shirt...
Among other overlooked camping areas within easy reach of a city is Montana's Fishtrap fishing-access site in the Big Hole River Valley, about 40 miles southwest of Butte. Not far from its campsites, moose, elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep and goats graze. Fishtrap is a "blue-ribbon" fishing area-the state's highest designation-whose streams teem with rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout. Relatively few visitors have discovered the Bighorn River south of Billings, Mont., which encompasses mountains, upland prairie, desert and wetlands and the Pryor Mountains, with prehistoric caves to explore. In Wyoming...