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Most of the strident objections to the Corporation's list come from former members of the new defunct Faculty liberal caucus, and their objections have a great deal of substance...
Thinking right, Leonard wrote an anti-Greenwich Village article for a now defunct college-audience magazine called Ivy. William F. Buckley Jr., who had a piece in the same issue, detected conservative views in Leonard's writing. Buckley phoned, and hired him as an editorial apprentice on National Review magazine. Leonard did layout, makeup, a few book reviews. After Buckley sent him to post-revolutionary Cuba, Leonard found his political viewpoint solidifying. "I was always vaguely liberal," he says, "but Buckley taught me to develop my ideas logically. I discovered I was growing more radical, and that made...
...Student-Faculty Advisory Council, although now defunct, served two purposes in its brief Faculty history. It existed as a reminder of the gap between student and Faculty thinking. It functioned as a forum where students and professors could publicly assess the Faculty shortcomings...
After a year with the State Department's now defunct Policy Planning Council, he returned to Harvard to work on the papers of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. At Yale since 1956, Bickel has become one of the law school's most provocative teachers and prolific authors on constitutional law. He has also been one of the university's most outspoken critics of student militancy. When he wrote a magazine article last fall, a copy taped to the wall of a law school corridor was soon decorated with unflattering graffiti by activist student commentators. Unfazed, Bickel condemned...
Died. Helen Rogers Reid, 87, president, then chairman of the board (1947-55) of the now-defunct New York Herald Tribune; in Manhattan. Wife of the Trib's Editor-President Ogden Reid, she made her name on the business side as a crack ad saleswoman who had, as one colleague put it, "the persistence of gravity." She went to work in 1918, was responsible for doubling linage by 1923, and after that headed the ad department until 1947, when she assumed command at the death of her husband. In politics, she continued the Trib's tradition of moderate...