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Seferis's widow was very instrumental in getting the gift which Harvard had not actively solicited, Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, said last night...
Even more heretical are clandestine political pamphlets that attack Mao's successor. One anonymous booklet called "A Road to Proletarian Opposition-or to Rightist Surrender?" accuses Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and his "clique" of arresting Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and her "Gang of Four" in order to "grab power with great haste." The booklet also charges the new regime-insult of insults-with slandering the memory of the late Great Helmsman...
...White House access for groups of every stripe. The range is unlimited: Texas farm workers who will come this week to seek advice on unionizing, businessmen opposing a consumers' agency, battered wives pleading for protective legislation. Gloria Steinem and other feminists, Poet Allen Ginsberg, Private Slovik's widow, doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs-Midge deals with them all. As part of her role as Ms. Outsider, she arranged a Rose Garden meeting two weeks ago with the President and leaders of 76 women's organizations, at which Carter signed a "Women's Equality Day" proclamation. Then...
...Southwestern Bell executives accused each other of everything from bribing Texas newspapers and politicians to playing host to parties for local politicians and visiting executives from other Bell system companies. They were testifying in a $29 million libel and slander suit brought against Southwestern Bell by Gravitt's widow, Oleta Gravitt Dixon,* and James Ashley, who was fired as general commercial manager for the San Antonio office of Southwestern Bell a few days after Gravitt's death. The widow claims that the company hounded her husband to suicide; Ashley maintains that he was fired because he and Gravitt...
...always rival factions within [Southwestern] Bell " says one insider. "When Angus Alston the chairman of the board, was dying of cancer in 1974, a new group came into power and wanted to get rid of their enemies, Gravitt and Ashley." Pat Maloney the flamboyant lawyer for Gravitt's widow, pointed to a Bell organization chart in the San Antonio courtroom; he accused Gravitt's successor, Chester L. Todd, of instigating the investigation that led to the executive's death only to get his job Asked Maloney: "That's really the way the corporate world works...