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...emergency meeting in the exchange's dark-paneled board room. President Robert Haack told them they had to come up with some salvage plan or face a major crisis. By process of elimination, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, by far the biggest U.S. brokerage, was selected as savior. Clifford Michel, managing partner of Loeb, Rhoades, explains: "One strong, viable firm had to take over, and Merrill Lynch was the only one that had the capital, the muscle and the talent...
Later, in January, the Corporation announced the appointment of Overseer Clifford L. Alexander '55 to develop a "comprehensive minority hiring program" for the University...
...addition, the University appointed Clifford Alexander '54, former chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission, to form a comprehensive minority hiring program for the University. Two new building contracts which the University signed on February 9, one for Gutman Library at the Education School and the other for an extension of Paine Hall, provided for the hiring of between 19 and 23 per cent black workers...
Various schemes for survival are being tried. Though specialized magazines for priests have had their own troubles lately, Father Clifford Stevens of Santa Fe, N. Mex., has recently launched a slick, readable monthly called Schema XIII (after the Vatican II document on the church in the modern world), which tries to overcome the stodgy clerical image of competing periodicals. Methodists and Presbyterians have joined to launch a new "multimedia" mission magazine, New World Outlook, replete with poster-size foldouts and stapled-in phonograph records. The Roman Catholic Maryknoll fathers have announced a new line of "Third World" books about problems...
Died. Frances Farmer, 56, honey-haired Broadway and Hollywood beauty of the late '30s; of cancer; in Indianapolis. Her fourth movie, Come and Get It, was a smash hit in 1936, and she conquered Broadway with equal ease a year later in Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. After that came raging fights with coworkers, bouts of alcoholism and finally, mental breakdown. Eventually, she recovered her health and went on to host a popular Indianapolis TV show...