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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN AND THE RAREY, by Rosemary Wells (Funk & Wagnalls; $3.50). What does a boy do when his parents won't let him have a real pet? He goes looking for a clean, neat animal-and finds a "Rarey." Equally lively is Rosemary Wells' Hungry Fred, with text by Paula Fox (Bradbury Press; $3.95). A mod book with considerable style...
...fall, when several student government organizations proposed withdrawing academic credit from ROTC courses, the Committee on Educational Policy, a sort of faculty executive committee, met to draft a resolution of its own on ROTC. When I called Dean Franklin L. Ford after the meeting to get a text of the resolution, I was told that it would not be released until a news conference two days hence, the morning which was slated to discuss ROTC. Ford had long had an arrangement with the CRIMSON whereby he told them the results of the CEP meetings provided that if he ever wanted...
AFTER A handful of telephone calls I was able to obtain a text of the resolution, which made Page One of the morning Globe. It also marked the last time I was able to get past Dean Ford's secretary with a question. Dean Ford undoubtedly felt that I was ill serving Harvard with my handling of the affair. One must of course question whether serving the University administration or the dean of the faculty is necessarily synonymous with serving Harvard. But there is also the deeper question of whether a reporter should stop to ask how well...
...elements without gaining any visible harmony of mood or purpose. One redeeming element is the staging by Director Gene Frankel: the menacing beat of tom-toms, eerie flickering lights, harsh ritual dances and the brooding presence of totemic animal masks give the play a body that the text lacks. Stacy Keach's Buffalo Bill is pistol-bright as the showman, but the man within remains tantalizingly masked...
...Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker was considering a motion to reduce the sentence. Kennedy drafted a plea for mercy in his fine longhand. He sent copies to Ethel, Sisters Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, and his mother, Rose. They had discussed the matter before; all approved the text. Then Ted sent his original copy to Judge Walker. "My brother was a man of love and sentiment and compassion," he wrote. "He would not have wanted his death to be a cause for the taking of another life...