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Special Officer Thomas Scanlon, a 24-year veteran of the Harvard police who met and befriended a generation of Harvard freshmen in his years of patrolling the Yard, bowed out before 250 friends and co-workers who gathered at the Pound Building to cheer him into retirement...
...Scanlon, who left the force May 1, grew misty-eyed as the crowd of Harvard deans, administrators, police officials--and, of course, cops--lauded him as "just a beautiful person who made everybody else feel that...
Speaking in the soft brogue of his native County Caven. Scanlon later said he "never had a single regret" about his years at Harvard, an intermittently turbulent era that included the 1969 strike and the 1972 take-over of Mass Hall...
...story was a sequence of Through the Looking-Glass ironies. The government, which took over Leyland almost two years ago to save it from bankruptcy and now owns 95% of its stock, threatened to cut off promised investment funds if management could not end the walkout. Militant Laborite Hugh Scanlon, president of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, which represents the toolmakers, joined Leyland's labor relations boss Pat Lowry to endorse a strikebreaking ultimatum: go back on the job by Monday or get the sack. With reverse English, Tory politicians and press threw their weight behind the strikers...
Leyland agreed, and won the grudging acceptance of Scanlon. Then Strike Leader Roy Frazer stood before the toolmakers and defended the proposal. "This is not the end of the road-just the beginning," he declared. By a nearly unanimous vote, the Birmingham strikers decided to go back to work...