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From the start, the man seemed to match the office. Said Howard R. Bowen, 56, in his inaugural address: "The University of Iowa, located almost literally on the edge of a cornfield," must be "a place that is hospitable to the individual human being, that raises his aspirations. I hope we shall also seek individuality for the university itself...
Natural Habitat. Bowen's durable predecessor, Rhodes Scholar Virgil M. Hancher, has kept Iowa in the front rank of state universities. The Iowa City campus is home for some of the most adventuresome minds in science and the arts: Physicist James Van Allen, Psychologist Wendell Johnson, Printmaker Mauricio Lasansky, Paul Engle's famed Writers' Workshop. The library, medical and law schools are among the best in the U.S. But Hancher is a corporation lawyer by training and cautious by instinct. "He tended to protect what we already had," says one dean, "but I am more concerned about...
...Bowen it was a homecoming. He got his doctorate from Iowa, taught there for seven years before becoming an expert in fiscal policy and the problems of small business for the New Deal. Then he worked as an economist for the Irving Trust Co. Over the next ten years he moved from the University of Illinois to Williams College as professor of economics and then to Grinnell in 1955. When Bowen arrived, the school was scratching for students; by the time he left they were fighting to get in. Grinnell won one of the first Ford Foundation matching grants...
...Welcome to Haiti," read the huge sign on Port-au-Prince's Main Street near Bowen Airport. Near by, tied to a wooden chair in a police pickup truck, was a bloated yellow corpse, covered with flies. The display, on view for 24 hours and set up just 15 days after Haiti kicked off a major tourist campaign, was one more warning from Dictator François Duvalier to his fellow Haitians: stay tame, or else...
...Bowen is reasonably certain that 3C-147 is a galaxy that exploded several billion years ago, giving more light than 100 normal galaxies. Along with its light, its blowup sent out powerful radio waves, probably generated by high-speed electrons moving in a magnetic field...