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...Board of Overseers yesterday approved the appointment of Karl W. Deutsch, a pioneer in modern theories of political development, as professor of Government, (effective July...
...Deutsch, who has taught at Yale since 1957, has been influential in giving quantitative meaning to such vague concepts as nationalism, political integration, and social mobilization. One of his first books, Nationalism and Social Communication, published in 1953 while Deutsch was professor of History and Political Science at M.I.T., was the ground-breaking study in the field...
...Deutsch's appointment is supported by the same multi-million-dollar Ford Foundation grant for professorships in political development that financed the recent appointment of Seymour Martin Lipset, Professor of Government...
...five years, Bandleader Emery Deutsch and his wife vainly sought damages from Manhattan's Doctors Hospital for the permanent mental retardation of their son. The Deutsches claimed that hospital nurses delayed Christopher's birth by pressing a towel against his head for twelve minutes-thus allowing the tardy doctor to arrive and collect his fee. As a result, the child allegedly suffered loss of oxygen to the brain. He will never be able to walk or talk or learn...
...plaintiff cannot win on mere possibilities. Nor can he rely on common-sense assumptions in situations where only experts are competent to judge causation. In the Deutsch case, for example, the jury was not permitted to assume that brain damage resulted from the repressed birth, and medical testimony was essential. All this makes the plaintiff's burden of proof exceedingly hard to carry when the effect appears long after the cause-for example, in radiation sickness or in lung cancer allegedly caused by cigarettes. Things get really complex when there may be two or more possibly equal causes. Example...