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...reason Harvard decided to set up its own company was that it didn't want to get into the tenure business. There is no tenure in the financial world. We'll look at everything over the longest possible term, but if changes must be made, they'll be made. I fully expect that Harvard will fire me if I don't do my job and that's the way it's got to be across the boards...
...LONGEST EGO STREAK: John Huston playing his self-beloved role of rebel boy while delivering the Establishment message that we all ought to take the awards more seriously...
From the moment when Mme. Charles de Gaulle smashed a bottle of champagne across her bow 14 years ago, the 66,000-gross-ton luxury liner France has reigned as the seductive grande dame of the seas. The 1,035-ft. liner, longest in the world, could carry as many as 2,044 passengers amidst the splendor of spacious staterooms and marbled public salons. Her first-class dining room, where white-tied captains spooned out gargantuan portions of caviar, was praised as "the best French restaurant in the world...
...seems in sight. Student organizers at several universities were rounding up participants for an assault on the largest streaking record (see box). At Stanford University, preparations were being made for the longest streak, an 18-mile jaunt between Palo Alto and San Jose. At the University of Pennsylvania, students staged an undressed rehearsal for a fanciful "streak for impeachment" around the White House. Even President Nixon got into the spirit of things: when Reporter Sarah McClendon commented that his hair was graying at the temples, Nixon quipped, "They call that streaking...
...LONGEST STREAK: Five hours, by students at Texas Tech in Lubbock...