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...seven years as dean of the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, expansive, flamboyant Dwight Allen, 44, worked miracles (TIME, Dec. 21, 1970). Demonstrating a genius for fund raising, he brought in a total of $15 million in federal and foundation grants. With a flair for innovation, he transformed the small, conservative segment of the state university into a flourishing but controversial school that concentrated on urban education and minority problems and encouraged a "do your own thing" attitude among students and faculty. Wearing colorful custom-tailored African shirts, he toured the country, making as many...
...accused Allen of misusing the funds himself, but he is being held responsible for a variety of other sins. "Dwight is an operator, a wheeler-dealer," says Professor Robert Wellman. "But he is a very poor administrator." Adds Professor Albert Anthony: "He's a P.T. Barnum type. He knew damn well he couldn't make the school rank in the top two or three in a few years by scholarly rigor. So he went into all of the innovations that were hot in the late '60s -all the things that were the beneficiaries of federal money...
...mostly from ignorance and mismanagement of the benefits available to them. Those around Washington who remember the bonus marchers of 1932 recall them as actually on a "hunger march." The men were destitute. Attorney Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran watched General Douglas MacArthur and his aide Dwight Eisenhower ride off to disperse this pitiful army on the Anacostia flats. New Dealer Abe Fortas came down as a kid lawyer out of Yale in the summer of 1933. He arrived in the Department of Agriculture with his suitcase and did not unpack it for three days and nights. He stayed right...
...Dwight Stones, the world's premier high jumper at the moment, got "revenge" last Saturday night. After his jump on February 7 at the Los Angeles Times Indoor Games was remeasured, officials denied him a record he though he had broken; Stones claimed he was "robbed." Last weekend he cleared the needed height of 7 ft. 5 1/2 in. in Oklahoma to break his own indoor mark and prove to the world he really could...
Embree showed no signs of slowing after upsetting Dwight Stones, the world's premier high jumper, in the Millrose games last week...