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Ideas vary about what limits should be set. Harry Howe Ransom, professor of political science and an intelligence specialist at Vanderbilt University, believes that "covert operations represent an act just short of war. If we use them, it should be where acts of war would otherwise...
...these employees work under conditions very different from those of their bosses. The non-administrative 95 per cent work in the kitchens of undergraduate and graduate eating facilities: the 13 undergraduate Houses, the Freshmen Union, Kresge Hall at the Business School, the Harkness Commons at the Law School, Vanderbilt Hall at the Medical School, and others...
...eleven women ordained are all deacons, most of them seminary graduates, whose backgrounds vary widely. The oldest, Jeannette Piccard, 79, piloted many of the stratospheric flights of her late husband, Balloonist Jean Piccard. Marie Moorefield, 30, a graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School and a chaplain trainee at Topeka State Hospital in Kansas, grew up as a Southern Baptist and became an Episcopalian just five years ago. Nancy Hatch Wittig, 28, who is slated to take up duties at a Morristown, N.J., parish this month, is married to a Methodist pastor...
Died. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 76, restless offshoot of one of New York's richest families; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach, Fla. Opting for journalism over college, Vanderbilt embarrassed his clan in Farewell to Fifth Avenue (1935), a candid volume of childhood memories that caused his name to be struck from the Social Register. Living and working in an elaborately furnished trailer-"I would rather be a vagabond than a Vanderbilt," he once wrote-he periodically skittered round the world to interview celebrities for various newspapers and magazines. He was married seven times, divorced...
Lamar Alexander, 33, rarely mentions any more that he was a White House aide to Richard Nixon in 1969. A graduate of Vanderbilt and New York University Law School and a former newsman, Alexander coordinated Tennessee Republican Howard Baker's Senate race in 1966 and was campaign manager for Tennessee Governor Winfield Dunn in 1970. Now he is a candidate himself for this year's G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination. Chairman of the state's Council on Crime and Delinquency, Alexander has made a point of announcing, "I'm going to disclose every single contribution I get although...