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EARLY last fall, Gardner sent out to a select mailing list a letter that began: "I would like to ask you to join me in forming a new, independent, nonparistan organization to help in rebuilding this nation. It will be known as Common Cause. It will not be a third party but a third force in American life, deriving its strength from a common desire to solve the Nation's problems and revitalize its institutions of government." The issues Gardner set forth are establishing a fixed date for total withdrawal from Vietnam, and giving the problems of poverty and race...
...council's functions will be to select student representatives for each of the School's standing committees, except the Appointments Committee and the Admissions Committee...
...District 1 selection committee may select a third independent for a three-way round-robin playoff or it can sponsor a lone or best-of-three game series between Harvard and UMass. Tinker Connelly, head of the selection committee, was not available for comment last night. Because Harvard is also in the Greater Boston League, Boston University and Boston College, two top independent candidates, cannot be offered...
...undistinguished landscape by Van Gogh, L'Hôpital de St. Paul á St. Rémy, joined the no longer select club of certified million-dollar marvels by fetching $1,200,000. A smallish Gauguin self-portrait, far less impressive than several others he painted, brought $420,000-an auction record for that artist. Degas's 37½-inch-high La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, wearing the original cloth tutu and silk hair ribbon Degas used, broke the existing auction record for sculpture, selling for $380,000. Ironically, the little statue was received with such hostility...
...indicated he will make no changes in the deans, however. He said he has "complete confidence" in the present deans and would not want to have to select any new deans after a short time in office...