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...Another rumor, the polar opposite of the first theory, is that a small gang of committed radicals is using this convention to create a student government which will some day violently confront the administration and Faculty, thereby leading to 1969 revisited...
...answer is that neither rumor is correct. Neither pre-law nor pre-revolution types, the convention delegates are just undergraduates who feel the existing student government fails to give students an adequate say in decision-making at Harvard...
...rumor making the rounds is that these students are all Government majors doing a sort of independent study in constitutional governments, which will look good on their records when they apply to law school--especially if they serve in the government they help establish. Sort of like building castles in the air and then going to live in them...
...Democrat (which Miller is). A list of a dozen names was drawn up; eventually it was pared to five. On it were Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro, General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones, Brookings Institution Chief Bruce MacLaury and Bank of America President A.W. Clausen, in addition to Miller. Washington rumor has it that Shapiro, Jones and Clausen turned down...
...first glance, Pharaon's soft features, barely disguised by a mustache and a tiny Vandyke, suggest that he is something of a sybarite. He travels by private jet, owns a chateau in France and once, rumor has it, dispatched a ship to Italy to pick up a pair of porcelain vases. Moreover, his tendency to leave many major decisions to others, combined with a rather offhand manner when discussing business and money, can sometimes leave the impression that he is a self-indulgent hobbyist rather than a hardened executive...