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...best in his first novel, probably the best Washington novel of all time. The plot concerns the attempt of a dying President to put a supporter of his foreign policy into office as Secretary of State, and the moral issues that confront Senators when it turns out this otherwise wise and honorable man has lied about membership in the Communist party. The issues are cast in fifties terms, but the "Profiles in Courage" feeling is universal. The chief attraction lies in a stunning performance by Charles Laughton as Seab Cooley, the archetypal Southern Senator, who, like Sam Ervin, turned...
...Wise said he thinks that the new pact makes Harvard patrolmen the best paid campus police in the country...
Although the police union was originally demanding a raise of 21 per cent to meet the rise in the cost of living, Henry Wise '18, the association's lawyer, said yesterday that "Harvard has broken through," and added that he was "surprised" by the size of the increases in the new contract...
Edward W. Powers, Harvard's director of employee relations and chief labor negotiator, yesterday contradicted Wise, noting that Yale's police are higher paid than Harvard's, and called the new agreement with the Patrolmen's Association "no more than an average package...
...Wise men of both parties agree that the management problem is critical. Congress, of course, figures big in it, passing programs for the President to administer, refusing to change them or kill them when they falter. Still, there is room for presidential action in almost every area of administration. Ford has the power to cut personnel in the major departments, and he promised to pare those agencies. Yet, in his time in office, ten out of the eleven departments have grown larger. A lot of successful administrators could tell him that if he means business about conquering Big Government...