Word: baxters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notion of an alternative career also appeals to another unemployed history graduate student, John Baxter (not his real name). Unlike some of his more optimistic peers, Baxter believes the academic job market is drying up for good; after a year of rejection letters, he's getting out. "I've been disaffected with Harvard for several years," he says. "This year forced me to admit I wasn't getting anything out of it. I was disaffected with Cambridge too; Cambridge is a nutshell, too protective...I got a tentative offer, pending federal funding, to do social science research--and I started...
...list are matched with presents, a pile of gifts continues to grow. Four briefcases, three gold cigarette lighters, a necklace, one duffle bag and a bracelet are ready to go, but Elton has a problem. "What are we going to get for Skunk?" he asks, referring to Guitarist Jeff Baxter. "Does he smoke...
Died. James Phinney Baxter, 82, president of Williams College from 1937 to 1961; in Williamstown, Mass. A 1914 Williams graduate, Maine-born Baxter headed for Wall Street but, after a bout with tuberculosis, turned to teaching history, first at Colorado College, later at Harvard. Brought to Williams as president in 1937, he transformed the college over the next 24 years from an undemanding educational country club where the average grade was D + to a serious meritocracy by increasing scholarship aid, strengthening the faculty and quadrupling the academic budget. During World War II he was historian for the Office of Scientific...
...large, have done little to bring down the cost of the blood fractions that hemophiliacs must have. The American Red Cross, which collects 40% of all the blood in the U.S., has in fact lately agreed to turn over some of its blood to the Hyland Division of Baxter Laboratories, a commercial concern that charges twice as much for the hemophiliac fractions as some doctors say it should cost. "I understand your concern," a company official told Robert Massie, "but my sales people are always against lowering prices. Remember, I have to think of theirs...
...challenges to that official conclusion have been building for years. In 1970 two film makers produced a feature documentary, The Second Gun, that questioned whether Sirhan fired the fatal bullet. Last May seeming conflicts in the evidence were examined at a hearing in Los Angeles conducted by County Supervisor Baxter Ward. In the past fortnight, skepticism reached a new height. Harper's, New Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times all published lengthy-and contradictory -reconsiderations of the case. Last week former New York Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein concluded his review of the assassination by calling...