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...denied access to the normal grievance produces accorded regular salaried employees at Harvard University. Her supervisor at the Loeb Library, Caroline Shillaber, fired Ms. Sing without warning after 11/2 days' absence (one day with permission and 1/2 day for an emergency concerning her child). According to Ms. Sing's sworn affidavit. Shillaber fired her with the explanation that she "foresaw a pattern of absence because she [Ms. Sing] had a child." At the time no complaint was made about Ms. Sing's work performance...
...August afternoon when Gerald Ford was sworn in as the President of the U.S., he declared: "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." For one of Washington's top freelance photographers, Fred Ward, the event had a particular impact. Says he: "Suddenly the entire atmosphere changed. People who hadn't smiled in years were smiling-everyone was smiling!" Ward decided to try to capture the new mood in the capital through images of the happy, informal Ford household itself. The President took to the idea. Remarkably unself-conscious about being photographed, he granted Ward the rare...
After three decades in public life. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller has a well-earned reputation as a shrewd, tough, skillful operator. But when he was sworn in as Vice President, Rockefeller also be came the presiding officer of the U.S. Senate, and the moment he entered that historic chamber he was, as he frankly admitted, the new boy on the block...
...Later he traveled for eight months with Ford. Young Kenner-ly's irreverence and high lifestyle, which includes a Mercedes, a six-room Georgetown house, and an affinity for pretty women, richly entertained Ford, who came to regard him as an "adopted son." The day after he was sworn in as President, Ford asked Kennerly to be the official White House photographer...
James M. Stone '69, lecturer on Economics, was sworn in yesterday afternoon as Massachusetts commissioner of insurance...