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...letter, organized by Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government, was similar to one that four law professors supported by over half of the Law School faculty sent Bok in January...
WHILE I was reading through Adam Ulam's new biography, Stalin, The Man and His Era, one small passage jumped off the pages of history into our own time. It is a quote from a revolutionary journal during the Russian Revolution of 1905-6. One M. Alexandrov wrote he couldn't believe only ten years earlier political apathy among University youth was so widespread that a speaker at a students' meeting could say, "If you are studying to be a doctor then your main duty is to try to become a good doctor, if engineer to be a good engineer...
...much a question of trusting the Russians. It is rather a question of analyzing motives and interests and judging whether they coincide. Beyond everything else is the mutual desire to stay alive. "They don't want to live in an era of incalculable dangers either," says Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center. "détente is very good for our nerves, and even though the Russians have pretended to have stronger nerves than we do, in effect they also appreciate an easing of these tensions." In an era of nuclear proliferation, that is a statement that both...
...director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, the scarcity of housing. The other seminar participants: Law Professor Paul Freund, Harvard Business School Dean Lawrence Fouraker, Historian Bernard Bailyn, Sociologist Gene Sharp, John F. Kennedy Library Director Dan Fenn Jr., Head of Harvard Russian Research Center Adam Ulam, and Harold Demone Jr., professor of social welfare at Harvard Medical School. At a Monday-night dinner in Boston, the TIME contingent met with Pat Caddell, a young pollster who made a name for himself working in Senator George McGovern's presidential campaign, and three Massachusetts members of Congress...
...Adam B. Ulam, director of the Russian Research Center, also located at 1737 Cambridge St., told administrators he prefers the group's present location to the Kennedy site. "We have our own library and we're comfortable. It's old, hard to clean and the dusts gets in, but I don't like sterile antiseptic places anyway...