Word: surreys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courses and 15 tennis courts. In the cavernous lobby, where half a dozen roaring fireplaces give off the gentle fragrance of burning hickory and high tea is served while a string trio plays, notices offer skeet shooting or trout fishing. There is also horseback riding or jaunts in a surrey, along with bowling, swimming and spa waters...
Chris's Superette, the small grocery store on the corner of Banks and Surrey Streets, changed hands last week. Residents of Mather and Dunster Houses who rely on Chris's for their late night snacks will find the atmosphere greatly changed...
DIED. Robert Fabian, 77, legendary British detective who until 1949 headed Scotland Yard's Flying Squad; in Epsom, Surrey, England. Fabian said that to beat a crook one had to follow the "reasonings of his warped mind," but his findings were as often the result of tenacious 18-hour-a-day investigations. In his most famous case, the Alec de Antiquis murder in 1947, he traced the killers through a ticket sewn in the lining of a filthy raincoat. After his retirement, he lectured and wrote Fabian of the Yard. His book and sleuthing inspired movie plots...
Most people--including Stanley Surrey, Smith Professor of Law and first chairman of the University's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR)--agree that the Mass Hall takeover hastened the move by President Bok to set up the ACSR. Since 1973, the advisory committee, composed of equal numbers of students, faculty and alumni, has counselled the Corporation on socially responsible Harvard shareholding, coming up with recommendations on how Harvard should vote on each shareholder-sponsored resolution it receives as stockholders in hundreds of companies...
President Bok himself disagreed this week with Surrey's analysis of events, claiming that the establishment of a shareholder advisory committee had been among his plans from the start of his term as president in the fall of 1971. At the same time, in light of the Mass Hall takeover, Bok regrets not having established ACSR promptly--before the development of the Gulf Oil protests. "To have had those procedures implemented promptly before the problem arose would have been a good thing," Bok says. "Of course, hindsight is always easy. In the fall, there was no problem, and it didn...