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...downtown Boston sit Harvard's treasurers, the men who handle the University's $1.4 billion dollar endowment--the largest in the country--and have decided to concentrate investments in oil, defense and the like. Things are better now; they weren't even watched back in 1972, when a group of angry students stormed Massachusetts Hall to protest the University's holdings in Gulf Oil which was operating in Angola, where racial tensions were running high...
...Corporation--that group of seven all-white, all-male people that run the University, decide what's going to be built where and who will build it and why--has a committee that advises it on investments now. It's called the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and the key word there is not responsibility but advisory. Because as the ACSR, which includes students among its members, has turned increasingly liberal, the Corporation has shied away from those suggestions and remained conservative. Not much has really changed from four years ago, when a spring night brought 3500 undergraduates into...
Then they begin to mix and match without being "utterly provocative." They link most students by interests, though they're careful not to overdo it. "We don't want Bach societies," Lewis says, although inevitably a roommate group's interests will sometimes be remarkably similar. Several years ago, the advisers put three fledgling ornithologists in a suite that was fondly known as the "bird room...
Even more important to Bland than the Democratic wheeling and dealing is the future of the Black Community as a political force. He wears an orange button identifying him as a member of the United Urban Party ("We are the Balance of Power"). He explains: "It's a small group based here in New York which is committed to unifying the Black peoples into a singular, powerful voice to demand improvement in places like the South Bronx. We've heard all the promises. We need action." Her refuses to be more specific about the size or activity of his organization...
After the Air Force, Hagman tried his luck off-Broadway, then did a two-year stint on The Edge of Night. There were several modest roles in movies, including one memorable semivillain in The Group. But Hagman's most important part before Dallas was in the airhead sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. For Hagman it was the big break. He worked constantly, rewriting scripts, fighting to get the best possible performers. "I was driven, compulsive," he remembers. "I yelled at people. Finally I couldn't take it any more. I started to vomit...