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Many companies are even working to hook up their so-called smart machines so that they can communicate with each other. One such arrangement might allow a company executive to dictate a memo into a smart dictating machine that will then distribute it, electronically, to offices around the world. Copiers linked to teleprinters would print and duplicate the memo, route it internally as well as "file" it in the electronic memory banks of field office computers...
...first with Carter Aide Richard M. Harden, who, claims Lee, persuaded him not to see Jordan. Lee says he then dropped the scheme entirely. After investigating Vesco I for 18 months, a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., disbanded without returning any indictments. But Justice Department lawyers, in a memo to Assistant Attorney General Philip Heymann, recommended that Harden be further investigated by a special prosecutor; both Lee and Harden were suspected of lying when they claimed they never approached Jordan. But Heymann turned down the lawyers' proposal. Explains a top Justice Department official: There's something there...
Although the professors' memo is directed at changing future dean searches and will not affect the current search for a successor to Albert M. Sacks, dean of the Law School, it calls the present procedure "unsatisfactory" and suggests creating a formal search committee of faculty and students to evaluate candidates for future dean selections...
President Bok, who preceded Sacks as dean before becoming president in 1971, has "bent over backwards to consult with the faculty, and we trust him," C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law and a signer of the memo, said this week. But in the future, when Bok is no longer president, "there ought to be full participation by faculty and students in the selection," because the dean is "a hell of a lot better off" if the faculty is formally involved in choosing him, Ferguson added...
Duncan M. Kennedy, professor of Law and one of the 17 faculty members who sent the memo, said this week that "Bok ought to have changed the procedure before the selection of this dean because the present procedure is outrageous...