Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...popular young professor on the Law School Faculty, was named dean two and a half years ago when Erwin H. Griswold resigned to become U.S. Solicitor General. Griswold ran the traditionally close-knit Law School with an iron hand and escaped from the job just before students mounted a series of campaigns against many of the older traditions. Bok inherited both the student dissatisfaction and a tradition-minded conservative faculty, and he has spent the better part of his term reconciling...
...Corporation's announcement last week that it wanted a man with a primary academic commitment, politicians should by all rights be excluded. Ramsey Clark is a politician: A Justice Department lawyer under Bobby Kennedy and Attorney General under Johnson. His academic credentials are pretty meager compared to those of the other four: two years at the University of Texas, where he graduated with an A.B.; another year and a half at the University of Chicago where he simultaneously took his law degree and a masters in history. He's been to Harvard less than ten times...
Nixon had been talking about the journey in general terms since the spring. Now it took on a special urgency. By his presence, the President means to show the flag in the Mediterranean, where Russian naval strength has been growing. The point will not be lost when he appears at sea on the bridge of the guided-missile cruiser Springfield, a flagship of the Sixth Fleet, or when he calls on NATO's southern headquarters in Naples. His visit with General Franco in Madrid will be a much publicized reminder of the renewed agreement on American military bases...
When Martha Mitchell's runaway tongue provoked demands that Husband John silence her (TIME, Dec. 5), the Attorney General responded with the bemused suggestion that she speak henceforth in Swahili. Last week, his glacial restraint thawed by two Scotch-and-waters and the gentle prodding of Kandy Stroud, an attractive blonde reporter for Women's Wear Daily, John Mitchell topped even Martha at her loquacious best...
Some of the statements attributed to Mitchell were unexceptionable, such as his praise of President Nixon as "probably the most informed man in the U.S. today." But the Attorney General's zingers suggest that he and Martha might study Swahili together...