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...faculty members who do consulting work for Data Resources, Inc., a consulting firm; not up to the snuff required by Richard E. Caves, Stone Professor of International Trade, who has often declined to comment publicly on Department decisions; and not up to the snuff required by Richard A. Musgrave, Burbank Professor of Political Economy, who believes academic decisions are sacrosanct and should not be subject to the democratic processes of student review...
Signs of the times, and proof that things have changed since Frank Capra visited Novelist James Hilton's Oriental paradise in 1937. Pollution has socked in Burbank, where Producer Ross Hunter (Airport) built the monastery by redecorating a castle set that had been swallowing up space on the Warner Brothers back lot ever since Camelot. One sometimes wonders how the actors get through their Burt Bacharach-Hal David tunes-the contemporary equivalent, presumably, of the music of the spheres-without the aid of bottled oxygen...
Died. Harry Richman, 77, song-and-dance man of the top hat and tuxedo genre who popularized Puttin' on the Ritz, Walking My Baby Back Home and On the Sunny Side of the Street; in Burbank, Calif. After his start as a Tin Pan Alley song plugger, Richman won stardom in the Broadway revues of the '20s and '30s, where he introduced standards like The Birth of the Blues and It All Depends on You. One of the highest paid stars of the era, and temporary fiancé to "It Girl" Clara Bow, Richman mastered the role...
...campaign marred by blunders and bad breaks, had begun to get the scent, not of victory to be sure, but of some improvement. Small contributions were coming in at a brisk rate through the mails. There was something in the air that caused a middle-class homeowner in Burbank, a jar of olives in hand for his martini, not to close the door in the face of the earnest, shaggy McGovern canvassers but to wish them well. In Chicago's 47th ward, a housewife accepted a bumper sticker from a McGovernite. "I'm only a step ahead...
...fiscal 1973, and officials are pondering whether to use it to reduce taxes or improve schools. In New York, the Assembly's Democratic minority leader, Stanley Steingut, predicts that the state will have a surplus of at least $400 million. Cities as disparate as Schenectady, N.Y.; Jackson, Miss.; Burbank, Calif., will report handsome surpluses...