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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race against Kennedy would be "eminently winnable," Baker said, adding that the major issue would be whether Kennedy "is in step with what the country wants now." He also said the voters would "quickly sort out the nostalgia from the record on issues...
When students stormed University Hall in 1969 demanding the abolition of the ROTC, the administration capitulated. But ten years later; with a tightened economy and a more sedate student body, the University has met student demands of a different sort with letters and reports, but no action. Frustrated by Harvard's success at defusing the potentially explosive South African investment issue, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) is setting its sights beyond Harvard Yard...
...This sort of thing is the closest we get to an insiders anecdote, this or something about how much Betty enjoyed choosing the drapes for the East Room. Ford includes none of the inside dope that makes The Best and the Brightest enjoyable reading, nothing about the machinations and power struggles inside the government, or even Betty's boozing, or Jack's affair with Bianca Jagger. The whole book could've been written out of the New York Times. And no real insights into Ford himself, Ford the Man, except for the refrain "I was damn mad" and stories like...
While the Harvard Management Company maintains control over the day-to-day operations of the portfolio, the "ultimate decisions are left to the Harvard Corporation," Cabot says. "The Corporation does not dictate to the company what sort of stocks it should...
...Treasury and tell him, "I just tried out two of your dimes on Times Square, and they worked like a dream. It looks like another great day for the coinage!" He hears a radio news broadcast and has another offbeat response: "The newscaster spoke with a barking sort of hilarity, as though life were a comical steeplechase, with unconventional steeds and hazards and vehicles involved. He made me feel that even I was a contestant - in a bathtub drawn by three aardvarks, perhaps...