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...charter has been removed from the archives for every Harvard president's inauguration although sometimes this maneuver can be tricky. In 1971, when President Bok was sworn into office. Holden and a convoy of University officials had to escort the document to University Hall via underground steam tunnels, out of fear that student protestors might damage the relic. (The mood of students at the inauguration proved so congenial, Holden recalls, that he made the return trip above ground...
...Gerry Armstrong, 36, who was authorized in January 1980 by Hubbard to gather papers for a laudatory biography. Armstrong found documents so damaging to the cult's credibility that he quit the church in disgust. He vows to use the papers to prove his charges, made in a sworn statement for a court case in Florida, that "Mr. Hubbard had continually misrepresented himself and had lied about his past...
...surface, the mood ranged from cozy to playful as members of the 98th Congress convened to be sworn in last week. In the Senate, New Right Curmudgeon Jesse Helms of North Carolina, whose filibusters made him a renegade late last year, embraced two of his colleagues at once, while newly elected Virginia Republican Paul Trible, 36, sat down for a deferential chat with sixth-term Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, 81. In the House, children crawled around the floor and squalled lustily as their parents took the oath of office. Bluegrass music twanged through the Rayburn Office Building, where Freshman Democrat...
DIED. Benjamin Rosenthal, 59, liberal congressional gadfly, sworn in for his eleventh full term as a Democratic Representative from New York City only a day before his death; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Rosenthal made his mark in Congress as a consumer advocate, launching investigations into businesses that he suspected of preying on the powerless and poor. Equally outspoken on foreign affairs, he alienated the Johnson Administration with his early and persistent opposition to the war in Viet Nam, and last March introduced a resolution to end U.S. involvement in El Salvador...
DIED. John L. Swigert Jr., 51, plucky, earnest Apollo 13 astronaut, who was due to be sworn in this week as a Republican Congressman from Colorado; of lung and bone-marrow cancer; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as a replacement one day before unlucky 13's launching in 1970, the civilian astronaut coolly announced, when an oxygen tank exploded, "Houston, we've got a problem," then initiated emergency procedures he had helped develop. Turning to politics, he spent most of his life savings in an unsuccessful bid for a senatorial nomination in 1978, but came back last year...