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...task force was chaired by Rochester, N.Y., Laywoman Virginia Davidson, wife of a retired Kodak executive and mother of four. The members, selected to represent various views in the church, included an openly homosexual young alumnus of Yale Divinity School and Historical Theologian Richard Lovelace, an articulate conservative from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. With typical Presbyterian thoroughness, they prepared a 198-page report that examines psychological data, social currents and especially the 13 Bible passages that deal with homosexuality...
Several celebrated administrators from other colleges were therefore leery of the job. Harvard Dean Henry Rosovsky actually refused it. Even Giamatti needed convincing, though he is a Yaleman (Class of '60), son of a Yaleman (Class of '32) and a devoted alumnus. Says he: "I'm going to hate some of the things I'll have to do, and people are going to hate...
...Midwest while Carter Hawley's sales come mainly from the Sunbelt. Field's earnings have been depressed in recent years by vigorous and not entirely successful expansion. Yet the company has a good chance of turning the corner under the management of President Angelo Arena, ironically an alumnus of Neiman-Marcus, which he headed until this fall...
...anything. The biggest, brashest, most uncontrollable and most defiant of the union's 21 districts, District 17 went on a ten-week wildcat strike last summer over a reduction in health benefits. It made no difference to the strikers that U.M.W. President Arnold Miller is a District 17 alumnus. They felt that Miller had backtracked on campaign promises and doublecrossed them. In the past, 17's members have struck over things that have nothing to do with coal or the U.M.W.: the banning of studded tires, school textbooks regarded as damaging to children, gasoline rationing and the condition...
Rosovsky is not a Yale alumnus, and he is Jewish, two factors that might count against him down in New Haven...