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Died. Robert Maynard Hutchins, 78, iconoclastic educator who became president of the University of Chicago at 30; of kidney disease; in Santa Barbara, Calif. As the youthful dean of the Yale Law School and then president and chancellor of the University of Chicago for 22 years, Hutchins was a foe of "trivialization" and vocationalism. Believing that education required exposure to the original works of distinguished thinkers, he introduced the Great Books course at Chicago. Another innovation was the flexible "Chicago Plan," which allowed students to enter and leave the university whenever they could pass the entrance and final examinations. Hutchins...
Carle's contest was the most exciting of the afternoon. Her spear sailed 123 ft. 3 1/2 in. but the missile of her Connecticut foe stuck just inches beyond Carle's toss...
...chief monster woman, Dede Cooper (Estelle Parsons), is a pioneer zealot of regional theater, and she has nursed the Alamo into its present quarters, a huge Gothic pile. Dede can squash mountains as though they were bugs, but she has a doughty foe in a widowed moneybags named Joanne Remington (Rosemary Murphy), who believes that when money talks, Dede should shut up. Joanne's plan is to install a codirector, Shirley Fuller (Jan Farrand), who will siphon off Dede's authority...
Egged on by Wald and his biologist wife, Ruth Hubbard, Cambridge's Mayor Alfred Velluci used the escalating DNA furor to badger his old foe, Harvard. He convened the city council in an effort to halt DNA research at the school. Said Velluci: "Something could crawl out of the laboratory, such as a Frankenstein." At the council's request, Harvard and M.I.T. agreed to a moratorium on P-3 research while an eight-member citizens' review board studied the issue. In February, the council overrode Velluci and passed an ordinance permitting recombinant DNA work to be resumed...
...next few contests, Navy drew even. At number two, Harvard's Todd Lundy went down in a hard-fought three sets. After Scott Walker, who played strongly all week, had disposed of his sailor foe in another battle that went the distance, a strong Navy racquetman dispatched Kevin Shaw in two sets...