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...Dunster House which helped him land on president Nixon's second "Enemies List"--Calkins was a natural for dealing with disgrunted students. During the strike, he penned masterful press releases for the Corporation and once even stormed into The Crimson--where he had served a brief stint as President in 1942--to type a rebuttal to what he felt was a distortion of his views on a Yard poster...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Silent Partners | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

...same time, Mockler is known as a deeply cautious, conservative Boston businessman. He rarely gives Crimson reporters interviews and even less frequently agrees to comment on Harvard affairs. His involvement with Harvard's governing boards dates back to a stint as chairman of the board of Overseers and an advisor to Bok on University-industry relations. At the time he was chosen, Harvard needed a replacement for 28-year Corporation member Francis H. Burr '35, a lawyer with the local firm of Ropes and Gray. And Mockler was perfect replacement Like Burr, he is a solid, cautious, but forceful...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Silent Partners | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

...completing an assignment on the World's Fair (see LIVING). A U.S. Cavalry officer's son who was reared in England, Demarest joined TIME as an Atlanta correspondent in 1954 and went on to serve as editor of the Nation section from 1965 to 1969. After a stint as executive editor of Playboy (1970-74), Demarest returned to TIME, where he wrote Living and contributed to several other sections of the magazine. Over the years he wrote about subjects as diverse as military history, urban planning, gardening and gourmet food, always bringing wit, intellectual rigor and urbanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 28, 1984 | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

Elimination of the special sections focusing on radical economic theory is only one of the changes proposed for Harvard's largest course, commonly known as Ec 10, when Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 comes back from a two-year Washington stint to take control...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Ec 10 May Lose its Radical Sections | 5/16/1984 | See Source »

Kevin while, who began his stint in City Hall in 1969, recalled in a recent interview that as late as the '60s Blacks were able to walk through predominantly Irish Catholic South Boston unharassed. "Blacks used to regularly fish of Kelly's landing in South Boston as late as 1968," White says. "What tore the fabric apart was busing, the force and the harshness of its implementation...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Racism and Boston | 5/16/1984 | See Source »

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