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...Students for a Democratic Society, declared Columbia Provost David B. Truman last week, were deliberately "seeking a confrontation with the university." Thus Truman seemed to support the widespread notion that the wave of recent demonstrations and strikes at Columbia were all part of a conscious conspiracy. That is unlikely. S.D.S., which has played an active role in most of the U.S. campus uprisings, certainly believes in all sorts of radical confrontation, but conspiracy is not really its game. If anything, it is an organization whose members shy away from organization...
...college campuses is held by the faculty. The dominance of professional, Ph.D-bearing scholars over the higher learning in America is now so complete that it amounts to what two Harvard sociologists call The Academic Revolution. That is the title of a massively detailed and perceptive book (Doubleday; $10) by David Riesman and Christopher...
...this year, was performed in white, tight-fitting rags and tatters on a dead-black stage dec orated by Pop Artist Andy Warhol with 25 large pillows made of aluminum foil. Inflated with helium, they floated about among the dancers (and occasionally into the audience) while electronic music by David Tudor wailed and chattered...
...accompaniment" for How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run (TIME, March 15), by Cunningham's friend Composer John Cage, had nothing to do with music. At a small table downstage left sat Cage and Actor David Vaughan in dinner jackets, sipping champagne while they read humorous snippets and anecdotes from Cage's writings ("When Gandhi was asked what he thought about Western civilization, he said, 'It would be nice' "). The text had no clear connection with the skittery maneuvers that Cunningham & Co. were carrying out onstage, and none of it had any bearing...
Chairman and chief executive of the new company will be Hunt's present chairman-tough, acquisition-minded William E. McKenna, 48, whom Simon lured from Litton Industries last year. Under McKenna, as president, will be David J. Mahoney Jr., 45, a onetime Colgate-Palmolive marketing whiz who was hand-picked by Simon 18 months ago to turn ailing Canada Dry around, and did. Third member of the triumvirate will be Hunt President Harold M. Williams, 40, who joined Hunt 13 years ago as a tax lawyer. He will take over Simon's job as chairman of the finance...