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...last Harvard degree holder in space was Harrison J. Schmidt, who earned a Harvard Ph.D in geology in 1961 and walked on the moon in December 1972 as a member of the Apollo 17 crew. After leaving NASA, Schmidt served one term as a U.S. Senator from New Mexico...
...other hand, Harlan's longtime colleague and adversary Hugo Black, who did not retire until just before his death at 85, seemed to decline. "The nicest thing you could say is that he was not as vigorous in his last years," says Columbia Law School Dean Benno Schmidt...
...Schmidt, a former Earl Warren law clerk, notes pointedly, "Chief Justice Warren, as he was retiring, said several times he wanted to leave in good health to set an example for others to follow before their powers became impaired." But informing a failing Justice when to leave has always been a delicate matter. At the turn of the century, when one member of the court was designated to suggest resignation to the often befuddled octogenarian Stephen Field, the younger man eased into the subject by reminding him of a similar visit Field had once had to make to a senior...
...socialism. Is there really a trend toward conservatism? Or is there simply a trend against the people who happened to be in office during the economic crisis--between 1975 and 1982--and (who) were often Socialists or Social Democrats? In Germany, for example, you had Helmut Schmidt, and he was beaten. In periods of difficulty there is a feeling of selfishness. Maybe the traditional way the Social Democrats and Socialists had of intervening, with its emphasis on the state, was a bit too heavy. Our ways of thinking about our problems had to be questioned. It is true in France...
...dollar. Among the leading advocates of this theory are Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein, who was chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers until he resigned last summer. Their views are widely shared in Western Europe. Wrote former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in the newspaper Die Zeit last week: "The astounding recovery of (Reagan's) economy over the past 24 months and his view of the economic future rest largely on other people's money...