Universities: Royal Blues

With dignity, earnestness and immense discretion, four men last week strove for election to a place on one of the nation's most select, secretive and somber ruling bodies: the board of university trustees that is styled by ancient usage as the Yale Corporation. Following tradition, an alumni committee put up an official slate for Yale's 85,000 graduates to choose from: Flour Heir Philip W. Pillsbury, 60; Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay, 42, of New York; and George B. Young, 51, executive vice president of Chicago's Field Enterprises Inc. Competing with them was...

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