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Staying Power. The report, prepared by Howard R. Bowen, former president of California's Claremont Graduate School, and W. John Minter, an educational consultant, was based on a survey of 100 private colleges from 1969 into early 1975. Despite the depressed economy, the report noted that no major private colleges or universities have failed. Although about one-fourth of those surveyed are on shaky financial ground, the total assets of the 100 schools grew by 26%, while their Liabilities were rising by 18%. Income from private gifts went up 34%; government grants showed a 65% increase...
...Clyde Bowen, captain of the Statler's banquet department and a Roxbury resident, said taat he and his friends voted for White. Bowen said he does not object to working in the hotel's support staff for Timilty's headquarters. "I worked for Louise Day Hicks four years ago," he said. "You work what...
Almost everybody who knew Carson felt that friendship with her was an act of survival. "Carson burdened everyone who got close to her," Lillian Hellman complained. "I always felt Carson was a destroyer," concluded Elizabeth Bowen. As for Carson herself, she seemed "indestructible"-in the almost despairing word of her husband Reeves McCullers (who killed himself in a Paris hotel room after 16 years of marriage...
State Pool. The states are slowly moving to provide help. Indiana, whose Governor Otis Bowen is himself a physician, created a state insurance fund, established a panel to screen malpractice claims and weed out nuisance suits, and set a ceiling on malpractice awards. Legislatures in Idaho and Maryland have enacted similar measures. New York lawmakers, seeking to avoid a doctors' strike, acted to assure malpractice coverage by passing legislation to create a pool made up of companies now writing insurance in New York and enabling the state medical society to form its own insurance fund as an alternative. Unhappy...
...Indiana, Governor Otis Bowen (who is himself a physician) recently signed a bill that limits the total award in any malpractice suit to $500,000, sets a ceiling on lawyers' fees, and establishes a panel to screen malpractice claims and weed out nuisance suits. The measure also establishes a fund, to be created from a surcharge on insurance premiums, to ease the burden on insurance companies by covering any award in excess of $100,000. Idaho has enacted a law limiting liability to $150,000 in cases involving one person, $300,000 in cases involving more than...