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Magaziner called his biggest conferences "tollgates," a management-theory term applied to meetings in which progress reports are delivered and course corrections made. Linda Bergthold, a private consultant from San Francisco, remembers them as "a cross between Ph.D. orals and the Spanish Inquisition." Members crammed a meeting room on the fourth floor of the Old E.O.B. until the room grew so crowded that they sat on the floor and windowsills and peeked in the door. A lack of coatracks forced members to dump wraps on the floor. At each session, task-force leaders would present their progress on, for example...
...policy-wonk heaven," said Bergthold, who noted that years of health-care ideas were being dusted off and hotly debated. And the details came together. Benefits moved fast: at a Saturday-morning session in the Roosevelt Room, a jogging suit-clad Clinton ordered Magaziner to come up with a standard benefits package as good as or better than that of the typical worker, which meant the plan had to emphasize preventive care, including physicals and baby checkups, and some controversial procedures like abortion. But it would exclude cosmetic surgery, eyeglasses and borderline therapies, such as weight reduction...
Anastasia Kucharski '68 and Eleanor B. Swift '67 will be RGA representatives. And Gary D. Bergthold, a student in the Graduate School of Education, and Peter Geselle will be Peace Corps delegates. Bergthold and Geselle have already served in the Peace Corps. The board will soon choose its final member--another faculty representative, Mrs. Bunting reported. The program will be called "Education for Action...
...Bergthold said he did not feel the draft was a factor in the increase of applications. He noted that applications for the Corps have not increased across the country--just at Harvard and Berkeley--and that the male-female ratio of 60-40 has remained the same...
...Bergthold said he thought the drive's "individual approach"--every applicant had a personal interview with a returned volunteer--was a major factor in the drive's success. "The Peace Corps has often failed to explain just what living and working overseas is like...