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Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, yesterday recommended extensive reform of the Massachusetts judicial system in a report to Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...
...uphold the ruling so damaging, it is gratifying that the University has decided to prepare an amicus curiae brief to defend the California university's practice of allotting 16 places in each class for minority students. If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to accept the case, Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, will write the brief for Harvard. Cox wrote a similar brief two years ago defending the preferential admissions policy of the University of Washington Law School in the DeFunis case. But the Supreme Court did not rule on that case, and the Davis decision now carries...
...Chief Counsel is no exception. The hero, of course, is Dash himself, although Committee Chairman Sam J. Ervin of North Carolina takes nearly equal billing. The villain is principally Senator Howard Baker, the Republican from Tennessee, who served as vice chairman. Another villain, interestingly, is Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, with whom Dash tangled during his short-lived role as the Watergate special prosecutor. It soon becomes clear that anyone who impeded the investigation that Dash envisioned comes under fire in Chief Counsel, and this predictability of Dash the author is what principally weakens the book...
...Under that kind of circumstance, it was particularly difficult for Leonard," Archibald Cox `34, Williston Professor of Law and a close friend of Leonard's, said yesterday. "His judgment and his moral strength were of enormous value. I was there--he was a person to rely on, to lean on. He managed to help both the president and to deal with the black students...
...professor of History at Harvard, was special assistant to the President; Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, was ambassador to Japan; John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, was ambassador to India; McGeorge Bundy, former dean of the Faculty, was the President's national security advisor; Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, was solicitor-general. The list was seemingly endless...