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Professor Jerome Cohen of the Law School will discuss "The Study of Chinese Law: A Chinese Puzzle" in a lecture sponsored by Harvard University Press at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Meeting Room at Harkness Commons. [A sherry reception will be held in the Wheeler Room after the lecture...
...Considered Insinuation. The rumors were apparently touched off by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Eafle Wheeler in a Feb. 1 closed-door appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee. In response to a hypothetical question from Republican Hawk Strom Thurmond, according to leaked reports, Wheeler said that the Pentagon would indeed recommend use of nukes if the outcome of the Khe Sanh battle depended on their deployment. He had emphasized earlier, however, that he believed Khe Sanh could be held without their use. Moreover, he did not suggest that the President would permit their use even...
Gaping Loophole. Skeptics were quick to point out that the Administration had merely denied reports that it had been asked by parties unknown to deploy nuclear weapons; no one specifically repudiated gossip that their use was under consideration by the Pentagon. Nor did General Wheeler ease the skeptics' concern when he was asked at a press conference about using tactical nukes in Viet Nam. Sidestepping the broad question, he repeated: "I do not think that nuclear weapons will be required to defend Khe Sanh." The implication, to many, was that nukes were at least available as a last resort...
President Pusey will ask the Board of Overseers to approve the appointment of William Liller '48, Robert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy, as new Master of Adams House, a high University official said yesterday...
...network of slave profiteers began with black African wheeler-dealers whose names read like a roster of fly-by-night used-car salesmen-Grand Trading Man Ben Johnson, Willy Honesty, Yellow Will. But before long, European heads of state were getting their share of the action by way of taxes, if not by direct participation. When Queen Elizabeth heard about the first African voyage of John Hawkins, she called it "detestable" and prophesied that it "would call down vengeance from Heaven upon the undertakers." When she learned how handsomely the shareholders made out, she invested in the second expedition herself...