Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canton Trade Fair, the bustling twice-annual bazaar for China's international commerce, a Chinese official approached a visiting European businessman with a delicate but unmistakable proposition: favored business dealings, in return for the gift of a particularly desirable stereo hi-fi system. In Tianjin (Tientsin), a factory received a special shipment from an overseas Chinese merchant with whom it regularly deals: a free new automobile. In Peking, officials of a trading corporation asked another foreigner for a specified gift, an expensive Nikon camera...
...logical to cast Liv Ullmann as the indomitable mother of a struggling Norwegian immigrant brood. Unfortunately, the only thing she gets right is her accent. Ullmann is no singer, and she croaks out her numbers with nary a trace of that speechifying grace that Rex Harrison brought to My Fair Lady. With her disconcertingly low voice and brisk delivery, it sometimes seems as if she is barking out orders, like some displaced storm trooper...
...Louis, which is also engaged in a major waterfront reclamation project as well as several residential rescues, was cited by the A.I. A. for its imaginative conversion of the St. Louis Art Museum, designed for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair by Cass Gilbert, a leading architect of the Beaux Arts school. The airy building, with a 78-ft.-high vaulted ceiling, had over the years become so cluttered and partitioned that it looked more like a warren than a pleasure dome. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates gutted the interior to restore the structure's openness...
...concrete action completed this year is to clarify rules governing selection and payment of graduate student teaching fellows. Students wanted uniform practices across all departments so all students had a fair chance at the jobs, to ease the burden of tuition and expenses. The new guidelines, drawn up by a student-Faculty committee and approved by Rosovsky, will take effect next year. Michael Moynihan, a member of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), says the guidelines tackle only part of the problem. "The kind of teaching one does, whether a graduate student can propose tutorials and have freedom from the syllabus...
...national spokesman for education is needed. Packer argues that elevating education to Cabinet status will help improve its status and visibility. "President Carter has said education has only been brought up twice in Cabinet meetings," he notes, adding that a new department would insure that educational programs got their fair share, for example, when budgetary hats are passed around. Abramowitz envisions the Secretary of Education as a "senior educational adviser to universities, helping them secure mission-oriented dollars for research and facilitating the national educational rule-making process...