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Martin Bander, a public affairs representative of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). said last week, "The physicians [at MGH] who do come from foreign medical schools, tend to be chosen because they are the most superbly qualified...
Those are the chief conclusions of the second TIME Citizens' Panel conducted by the public-opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. Last month TIME published the results of the first survey, taken among 300 voters chosen at random from a national cross section of 1,500 people. To examine the changing-or unchanging -reactions to the campaign, Yankelovich went to 303 other voters between Oct. 8 and 10, after the second debate...
...rather than academic attainments and test scores. One of their favorite policies has been the rustification program, in which city-educated youths have had to spend indefinite periods working on agricultural communes to "learn from the peasants." Only a small number of the most radical ones would then be chosen to go to a university. The result of this, complained moderate Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin, since purged, was that students would be leaving the university "without being able to read if the present system continues much longer." The deposed Deputy Premier, Teng Hsiao-p'ing, declared before being...
...changes. What everyone wanted to know was: Why? Why had Taylor been fired after leading CBS to ever greater financial success and presumably having been selected by Paley to succeed him? Why had Backe, who had no experience in broadcasting-the heart of CBS's operations-been chosen as the next president? Why was Paley giving up one of his jobs...
When he learned last week that the Swedish Royal Academy of Science had chosen him as this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, the University of Chicago's feisty Milton Friedman pronounced himself "happy and pleased." But, he added with characteristic bluntness, "it is not the pinnacle of my career. The true judges of my work are today's economists. " Brooklyn-born Friedman, 64, leader of the so-called Chicago School of monetarist economics, thus became the sixth American to win or share the tax-free $ 160,000 award since the prize in economics...