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...resident scholars, and depends heavily on a large and highly prestigious group of outside consultants and experts. Paul W. McCracken, once chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, serves part time as head of A.E.I.'s "council of academic advisers" and plays a leading role in choosing what subjects the institute will study and who will investigate them. Others helping A.E.I. on a part-time basis to build up expertise include two leaders of the Nixon Cabinet: Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense, who has just finished an A.E.I. report on energy problems, and William Simon...
Edward Asner, who plays Lou, has been developing the character for seven seasons. On Mary Tyler Moore he first played his role as another gruff but lovable TV sitcom boss-like Lucy's Gale Gordon. By the time that series concluded last season, Asner had given Lou three dimensions: he was still a comic figure, but he was also a lonely, somewhat self-destructive man. Now Asner takes the character still further. In the new series (billed as drama, not situation comedy), Lou has left Minneapolis for a job as city editor of a Los Angeles newspaper...
...When the prince approaches his lieutenant, the proper response of the lieutenant is 'Fiat voluntas tua' "(Thy will be done). So did G. Gordon Liddy, a former counsel to Richard Nixon's re-election committee, explain his role in Watergate. Liddy was released from federal prison in Danbury, Conn., after 52½ months behind bars. Accompanied by his wife Frances, the grim-faced Liddy strode through the crowd to a waiting Pinto. Once the trunk was loaded with his few possessions, he slammed it shut with a karate chop. Asked how he felt, he responded, this time...
Harvard's Role in McCarthyism...
Whether Harvard will further expand its role in the Third World remains an open question. Cole contends a "moderate" expansion of HIID's activities overseas would help broaden the base of development activities based here in Cambridge. "We can still perform a more effective research and teaching role with some expansion," Cole says. Since most of the consultants on HIID projects are recruited from outside the University, the institute could expand its role in the Third World without draining major resources from Cambridge. But Cole maintains that HIID is not simply fishing for contracts, and that the institute will...