Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That decade proved to be enough for Stephen Smith, president of the Library Corporation. Smith announced in May that he was bowing to the wishes of Cambridge community groups, that he would recommend to the corporation's board of directors in June that the whole complex be built at the University of Massachusetts campus at Columbia Point in Boston. Smith offered Harvard one chance: produce a suitable site for a museum within one month, and retain the archives separately in Cambridge...
...story of Stephen S.J. Hall's palm reader is already a legend. It will be told and retold at least as long as Hall remains at Harvard and probably even after he leaves his post here to return to private industry. The story's popularity says more about Hall than its own anecdotal value, because it seems to sum up what people don't like about Harvard's vice president for administration...
Activity scheduled for this year includes locating an assistant professor to teach Gov 124, "The Supreme Court," and searching for someone to replace Stephen D. Krasner, an assistant professor in international relations who is leaving after the fall term. Mansfield said the department may also find itself with a new chair in Japanese politics, as some of the money the Japanese government has given Harvard will probably be used for that purpose...
...Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, this summer decided to remove the director of Buildings and Grounds because "he doesn't seem to be getting results...
...Governor of Georgia and now a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, agrees that "nobody on the face of the earth can make the present welfare system work fairly and effectively" because it is so "confused, overlapped and uncoordinated." New York's new state commissioner for social services, Stephen Berger, with tongue only slightly in cheek, has a proposal that is aimed at the vast welfare bureaucracy. Since firing the government employees involved would only add to unemployment, he wants to "strip every third person of his or her typewriter and telephone, encourage them to play bridge...