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...model, developed in the 1950s and 1960s has become the basis for modern portfolio theory. Lintner's theories, although not used in actual practice by Wall St. investment firms, had a "tremendous impact on people's thinking," said Robert Diefenbach, executive vice president of U.S. & Foreign Securities...
...first ten, as judged by "leaders in 29 fields," are Washington governmental figures, from Ronald Reagan down. In twelfth place came Rather, who doesn't make news (or laws) but just reports it. Even when the hype on the magazine's cover is reduced to the actual question posed inside -Which individuals exert "the most influence in national life?" - Rather's high place (much as Walter Cronkite's had before him) seems faintly ridiculous...
...fledgling discipline of sexual therapy with its unprecedented clinical prescriptions for treating frigidity, impotence and premature ejaculation. Faultfinders contend that both Human Sexual Inadequacy and a subsequent Masters and Johnson study of homosexuality are marred by vague language and fail to provide basic criteria and measures to assess the actual number of patient failures and relapses. In cases of low sexual desire, for example, M & J report a "nonfailure" rate of 80% without explaining precisely what that means. By contrast, other sexual therapists report a success rate of less than 50% for the disorder...
...Harvard, Wilson has been "a paragon of what you can hope for in a professor," according to Dudley R. Herschbach, Baird Professor of Chemistry, a former student of Wilson's. At 74, Wilson continues to do theoretical work on spectroscopy and molecular structure although his graduate students perform the actual experiments. Herschbach says...
This morning, six honorary degrees will be awarded, including ones to Fuentes, Washington Post Publisher Katharine M. Graham, and art historian Meyer Schapiro, (see special report, page 11) The list of honor ands is usually kept secret up until the actual presentation...