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...from Stanford, professorship at the University of Washington) hardly qualified her to set nuclear policy or equipped her to deal with the Byzantine ways of Capitol Hill politics. But she obviously learns fast. James Schlesinger (now Defense Secretary) strongly recommended her to succeed him when he left the AEC chairmanship to become CIA director last winter. Her greatest asset, he said, would be "balancing the demands of energy and environment." President Nixon, who had been looking for women to fill high federal posts, agreed; in February he appointed Ray to head the five-man commission...
Because science can be an instrument of democracy, there is a large measure of consistency in two of Mendelsohn's current projects: the New England chairmanship of the American Friends Service Committee and a lengthy study of the relations of social and intellectual bases of science. "I'd love to see a world brought into being which reflected values of non-violence, non-coercion, of inclusion rather than exclusion--one that placed man in harmony with nature," Mendelsohn says in summing up his loftiest hopes. Within such goals there is work for the activist, academic, and scientist alike...
...Academic Committee of the Association, under the chairmanship of Richard N. Frye, Aga Kahn Professor of Iranian, is scheduled to review the Association's master plan for academic affairs...
...alternates each year between a Republican and a Democrat. Last year the five-Governor Republican caucus chose Evans for a fundamental political reason that transcended all questions of race, creed, religion or national origin. Evans faced a tough re-election campaign in the troubled Virgins, and gaining the vice chairmanship boosted his chances...
...Guinier, much uncertainty remains about his position at Harvard. He is clearly not the most popular man with the Faculty, and he will probably not be able to retain the chairmanship of Afro Department very much longer. Whether Guinier will want to remain at Harvard after a new chairman is named remains a subject for speculation...