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Nixon won New Hampshire's four electoral votes handily, and Democratic Senator Thomas Mclntyre turned back a stiff challenge by the GOP's Wesley Powel. Three Men--Democrat Roger Crowley, Republican Meldrim Thomson and independent Malcolm McLane--were locked in a tight race for the governorship...
...among moderate students was dramatically reversed at the March 1970 Faculty meeting which adopted a permanent Resolution. Conservative Faculty watered down the admittedly weak section on Administrative responsibility by passing an amendment saying, in effect, that two wrongs don't make a right.' The amendment, sponsored by Arthur Maass. Thomson Professor of Government, pompously explained that "no violation of the members of the University, nor any failure to meet responsibilities, should be interpreted as justifying any violations by members of the University...
...final appointments of the week, Bok chose Raymond Vernon, Johnson Professor of International Business Management, and Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, to fill the posts of director and associate director of the Center for International Affairs...
...Thomson will continue to teach courses as a Lecturer in History. His tenure appointment, like many others in the History Department, collapsed because it was spread too thin over different areas. Thomson specializes in East Asian-American relations. This field is just gaining scholarly recognition, but to the academically conservative Harvard History Department, it is still unestablished. The East Asian wing of the Department supported Thomson's candidacy, but the Americanists opposed it. The Americanists won, and Thomson lost. In a similar episode, Ernest R. May, an American historian, backed the bid of Sam Williamson, a specialist in European diplomatic...
...most surreal after a junior faculty member is not rehired. None of his colleagues mention it. "It's perfectly absurd," Klein laughed. "You've taught joint courses with these people, you've known them outside. Nothing is said. Not even, 'Gosh, that's too bad.' It's very strange." Thomson also marvelled at "the degree to which these things aren't spoken about," adding, "No one says, 'I'm sorry things didn't work...