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...Massachusetts; Robert C. Seamans '40 of Cambridge, Visiting Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Management at M.I.T. and a Consultant to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; William Davis Taylor '31 of Boston, Publisher, Chairman of the Board and General Manager of the Boston Globe; and Theodore H. White '38, of New York, writer. Each was elected to a six-year term expiring in June...
...White last week said the Overseers' function was one of "advice and consent." Although the Corporation--formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College--makes most of the day-to-day decisions about the University at its weekly meetings, the Overseers must approve administrative or teaching appointments of more than one year's duration, degrees, and changes in the statutes and other major rules of the University. It usually gives what Richardson last week called its "benign approval...
Although unwilling to comment specifically on Norr's candidacy, White last week said that "the voice of a recent graduate could be...enormously useful. The closer we get to undergraduates the better off we'll be." Richardson agreed that "it is a good idea to have the board represent the whole range of alumni in terms of classes...
Allowing Harvard students to be Overseers would require an act of the Massachusetts legislature, and both Richardson and White say they oppose such an action. Richardson said that Harvard students already have adequate channels for expressing their views--through the Faculty petitions, various representatives, and editorials. "The real question is whether ideas and views are heard," he said. "My impression is that Harvard has shown considerable sensitivity...
...White Watson served on the secret panel the military's CBW budget tripled to $300 million and expanded into many new research projects. Products of that period's research have been part of the U.S. arsenal in Vietnam and the new high-powered police anti-riot arsenal...