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...expectations of alumni donations were not met, and the dean of the Faculty renewed the $20,000 subsidy for 1968-69 and 1969-70. In April, 1969, Dean Ford, Dunlop's predecessor, stated that he would reduce the subsidy by increments of $5000, starting in 1970-71, and would eliminate the grant after June...
...century." Yet neither the personas nor the performance of Robert William Haack seemed grandiose-until last week. Quiet spoken, looking younger than his 53 years, sometimes awed by the satraps of the Street, Haack had come across as more the manager and conciliator than the innovative leader. Unlike his predecessor, G. Keith Funston, who served the exchange as a supersalesman, Haack seemed like central casting's response to a call for a small-town doctor...
Rebuilding the anti-war movement beyond its peak in 1969 may well take most of the winter, especially after five futile and discouraging years of protest have given us a president whose vision is even less than his predecessor. Lyndon Johnson was, for all his failings, a moral man who could be broken by an appeal to his morality on the war. On more than one occasion, he expressed, bewilderment and apprehension over the sight of thousands in the street protesting his own role as a war monger...
...Mole, like its predecessor, will be oriented towards "the movement," rather than any specific group, one staff member said...
...sophomore halfback is a more powerful runner than his predecessor Steve Harrison. Harrison can pick his holes well, but there haven't been too many holes to pick in the opposition's defensive line this season. DeMars can use his speed and strength to run around or through defenders, and as Yovicsin said, DeMars can "smell the goal line...