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Another and in some ways more urgent problem is what the new migrations are doing to the big industrial cities, especially those of the Northeastern quadrant. They are hemorrhaging. Economist Thomas Muller of the Urban Institute in Washington lists nine "municipal danger signals." Among them: substantial long-term outmigration, loss of private employment, high debt service, high unemployment, high tax burden, increasing proportion of low-income population. The cities displaying those danger signals are Buffalo, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Newark, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Others that are better off but still in trouble are Cincinnati, Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh...
Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the Graduate School of Design, is no stranger to the hot seat: in seven years as head of the school he has become embroiled in two unprecedented University inquiries, and this week the 55-year-old economist took sharp criticism from students and members of the GSD's faculty and visiting committee...
...board members of moderate to conservative views: Robert Murphy, 81, a distinguished career diplomat who in 1959 was Under Secretary of State for political affairs; Stephen Ailes, 63, a Washington lawyer who was Secretary of the Army in the Johnson Administration; and Leo Cherne, 63, a New York City economist who is chairman of the International Rescue Committee, which aids refugees from totalitarianism. Cherne is also a personal friend of Ford's and a member of the President's Foreign
...social sciences what Big Bird is to Sesame Street, that master of monetary mirth-John Kenneth Galbraith!" And so it went last week in Boston, where Harvard President Derek Bok, Author George Plimpton and 500 other old Crimsons watched the king-sized economist, now 67, honored as Harvard's "funniest professor in 100 years." The festivities, all part of the centennial celebration of the Harvard Lampoon, included a cash prize of $10,000, which Galbraith promptly donated to the university's Fogg Museum, noting that "nothing so fittingly caps an unsuccessful academic career at Harvard as recognition, however...
Died. Vivian Wilson Henderson, 52, economist, author and president of predominantly black Clark College in Atlanta since 1965; while undergoing open-heart surgery after a heart attack; in Atlanta. Describing himself as an economist who happened to be a college president, the University of Iowa-educated Henderson argued that the key social issue in America was not race but class. Said he: "We have programs for combatting racial discrimination, but not for combatting economic class distinctions." The rise in student militancy brought accusations of "Uncle Tomism" from those who saw Henderson's numerous board positions, including membership...