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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stendahl, who agrees that the cut will weaken the program he helped to start, said last week that it was chosen merely because the untenured coordinator's contract happened to end this year, in a period of financial difficulties...
...worked on anything else for six years. That's a lot of my life to invest in a program and be unsuccessful." However, he is gamely trying to forget and concentrate on winning the next big project: the $700 million Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS) helicopter contract to be awarded by the Navy this spring. Vertol managers claim they have solved the vibration problems that plagued their UTTAS models, and so have high hopes...
Some of Simon's callers are merely nuisances: a boorish top-floor tenant (John Christopher Jones), a boozily aggressive littérateur, his girl friend who is soon enough making a stripped-to-the-waist play for a book contract. Others have more powerful claims on him: a brother stunted by failure, an old school enemy in suicidal despair because Simon has casually alienated the affections of the woman he loves, a wife driven into a dismal affair by Simon's emotional sterility. As they attack Simon from many directions, their function is to reveal the seamless perfection...
Atheneum's continual demands made Massie nervous, then resentful, then stymied. "When I sat down at my typewriter, the first thing I saw was Atheneum," he recalls. In 1975 Atheneum saw red. It refused to let Massie out of the contract and sued him for the advance-plus $575,000 in damages for "lost profits." The case went to arbitration, and last month the publisher was awarded return of the $130,000 advance, about $16,000 in interest, plus 25% of any money Massie makes from Peter-if it is ever completed. Massie's repayment will be deducted...
Third, the relative transcript proposal would put an end to significant attempts at educational reform begun in the last decade. The notion of courses which are selfpaced or use contract grading, for example, which allows for student evaluation according to self-determined set criteria will be downgraded in importance because graduate and professional schools will focus their attention on courses which were graded relatively. Faculty will probably be forced into a grading-on-the-curve system, rather than one which is realistically geared to what students actually learn in a course...