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...nonetheless attractive to Columbia. Mattfeld, a Goucher graduate, argues a partnership, yes, a merger, never. Discovering some "ambiguous wording" in the intercorporate agreement with Columbia, Mattfeld had Barnard trustees write out a specific mandate calling for the college's continued autonomy. At the same time, Mattfeld must allay the fear of some of her faculty that they will lose invitational teaching assignments at Columbia if she refuses the university's overtures to merge with...
...allay fears of women alerted by press accounts of Breslow's criticism, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) hastily called a meeting in Bethesda, Md., last week. The directors of the screening program noted that mammography techniques have improved considerably since the H.I.P. study began 12½ years ago and that the radiation doses now used have been reduced to about a third of their old level. More important, they said that about two-thirds of the cases detected were in an early, curable stage-and only about half these cancers could have been detected without X rays. Said...
...modern Olympic Games date from 1896 and were begun to promote sportsmanship and world peace. The original Olympics started in Greece in 776 B.C. and had their roots in the games staged by Achilles outside the walls of Troy to allay his grief at the death of his friend Patroclus. Now, just in time to coincide with the goings on in Montreal, two classicists and sports fans, M.I. Finley of England's Cambridge University and H.W. Picket of the University of Leiden in The Netherlands, have culled through ancient records, reviewed the writings of poets and philosophers from Pindar...
...party chief's puzzling explanation was that since Scott had no money he had no hope of collecting damages. In a last attempt to prove the innocence of his relationship with Scott, Thorpe released letters he had written to him in 1961 and 1962. They failed to allay all doubts. One letter, for instance, was signed tenderly: "Yours affectionately, Jeremy. I miss you." The following day, Thorpe wrote another letter, resigning his post as party leader...
Silber, a Yale philosophy Ph.D. and an Immanuel Kant scholar, has admitted to his "warts, defects and idiosyncrasies." He has also tried to allay fears that a mass layoff of faculty is planned. After defending himself at the faculty meeting during which the no-confidence vote was taken, he asserted, "We have to have a tight ship, but we certainly don't intend to make any cuts at the expense of academic quality." Next week the trustees must decide whether Silber will stay at the helm or whether yet another long search must begin...