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Howard Swearer, 42. The president of Minnesota's Carleton College has a knack for making things work. As chairman of the student-faculty-administration College
...Council, he has ably run Carleton's affairs for the past four years, aided greatly by the academic novelty of a balanced college budget. A Princeton graduate with a Harvard Ph.D. in political science, Swearer taught at U.C.L.A., was voted most popular teacher one year by political science majors. Lured to the Ford Foundation, he handled European and international programs, particularly in Iron Curtain countries, before going to Carleton in 1970. Recently he set up a well-received internship program there that allows students to try out jobs while still enrolled in school...
...students the stigma of working for industry has largely gone. "People realize that business is starting to clean up, to become conscious of its responsibilities," says Senior Ron Wolff of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. Students once again seem more interested in careers than causes. "When I started college, I wanted to help peopie," says Diane Gordon, a senior at Syracuse University. "Now I want to help myself...
...alchemy of oldtime radio goes deeper than nostalgia. "The charm of radio was that the individual was inspired to use his own imagination," says one of the buffs, William Andrews, in the same resonant tones that he once used to announce One Man's Family. Echoes Carleton E. Morse, who produced singlehanded, directed and wrote One Man's Family for the better part of its 28-year, 3,256-episode run, "Television destroys all power of appreciation. It tells you what is, and the mind can't get outside of what it sees...
Thus it was with considerable incredulity last week that New York's taxi masochists learned that one of the biggest fleets in town, called Helen Maintenance, had hired Designer Carleton Varney to refurbish its taxis in Holiday Inn splendor. The company's 104 Checker cabs will have green-and-white checked vinyl-covered seats, red tweed weather-resistant carpeting, solid green jump seats and matching interior walls. Seat belts will be bright red and ceilings will be painted blue-with an occasional white cloud and colorful bird -symbolizing, no doubt, New York's sky-high fares. Says...