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Named Secretary of Commerce last year at the age of 37, Alexander ("Sandy") Trowbridge surprised many of the business leaders who felt that he lacked the maturity and experience for the job. Despite the creation of the Department of Transportation and the demoralizing prospect that Commerce would be merged with the Labor Department-a Johnson proposal that is now at best dormant-Trowbridge worked a 16-hour day, boosted his department's morale, and performed creditably in one of the Cabinet's least enviable posts...
...federation is, in effect, an outgrowth of a larger movement within the church to give priests a more meaningful voice in the ecclesiastical structure. One conspicuous sign of this has been the creation in the past two years of priests' senates. In 1965, the Second Vatican Council decreed that each diocese should establish "a group or senate of priests to give effective assistance to the bishop in his government of the diocese." This was a rather radi cal advance, and there was some doubt that the senates would have any effective voice. But already senates have been...
WITH the approach of another round of recruiting interviews by the Dow Chemical Corporation, it is clear that little ground has been gained toward alleviating the conflicts and pressures which produced last Fall's bitter confrontation. The single most constructive result of the Mallinckrodt demonstration was the creation of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. Here was a Committee which could bridge the apparent gaps between students, Faculty, and the administration, and prevent a recurrence of this unhappy chapter in Harvard's history...
...Commission was designed not to keep tabs on a guerrilla war but to supervise the implementation of the Geneva accords in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. This it did with reasonable success in the first two years after its creation, mainly monitoring the withdrawal of regular French and Viet Minh troops. In the years since, however, it has proved disastrously limited in size, mobility and deployment...
...program in advanced environmental studies will include the creation of four new professorships, one of which was funded by a Ford Foundation grant last Fall...