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...Public Health School doctor Bernard Lown. He's receiving the Nobel Peace Prize today in Sweden, and probably nothing so far in his distinguished life has given him so much unexpected grief. He's been called naive by Reagan Administration officials; his credibility has been challenged by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and he's had to answer endless questions about how far in cahoots his Soviet counterpart, Dr. Evgueni I. Chazov, really is with the Kremlin bosses. And all along he's patiently repeated over and over again the leitmotif of his group, International Physicians for the Prevention...
Michael T. McManus, the university's assistant vice chancellor of public communications and a member of the Earthquake Safety committee, said it would cost over $120 million to make the buildings less vulnerable to seven recommendations made by the report...
Despite these dismal figures, Clifton Wharton Jr., chancellor of the / sprawling State University of New York (SUNY), remained skeptical when his faculty complained that good nonwhite teachers were difficult to find. Then he discovered that of some 1,000 Ph.D.s earned by blacks, more than 600 were in education but only 29 were in the physical sciences, six in math and one in computer science. Given such sparse credentials, faculty jobs for blacks have been extremely hard to come by. At Stanford, for example, a mere 45 of the university's 1,294 faculty members are black or Hispanic. Among...
...activity instinctive to the species, and a subtle examination of cultural and class differences. Architect Bill Rawn's resume, writes Kidder, suggests "the history of a Renaissance man in delirium": political science at Yale ('65); law degree from Harvard ('69); both assistant to the president and assistant chancellor for physical planning at the University of Massachusetts; graphic artist represented by galleries in New York City and Amsterdam; architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the design prize for the graduating class...
Though many educators agree with Bennett's latest broadside, it stirred angry reactions. Said Ralph Robinett, administrator of bilingual education in Dade County, Fla.: "It is the old story of the power structure being out of tune with the ethnic makeup of the community." Nathan Quinones, a Hispanic and chancellor of New York City's public schools, where 86,000 students are in bilingual programs, was quietly unhappy. Bennett's emphasis on English, he said, "implies that if you do anything other than what is professed by Bennett . . . you may not be American...