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District Court Judge Frank H. Freedman said in his decision, "I do not believe [Harvard's] historical connection with the Commonwealth alone enables this Court to take the position that the University is public in character...
Both camps realize the situation full well. Hamilton Jordan, Carter's frank, perceptive campaign manager, might be speaking for the President's men when he says: "People like Gerald Ford. They think he's honest. They think he's well intentioned. A lot of people in this country think he's been a very strong President. People are just coming to know Jimmy Carter. They like him. They think he's honest. They think he's well intentioned. A lot of people have made a tentative judgment that Carter would be a stronger President. I think the election will turn...
...revelation of any man comes through flashes of light." So said CBS President Frank Stanton before a journalism group in 1960 as he analyzed the Kennedy-Nixon TV debates of that year. It is a remark worth recalling as the Ford-Carter debates of 1976 approach. While it has become fashionable to belittle the first televised clash of major presidential candidates, the 1960 debates did illuminate important personal qualities of the two men-more so, in fact, than anyone realized at the time...
...cancer; in Manhattan. Lazarsfeld got his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Vienna, and when he came to the U.S. in 1933, devoted himself to applying that discipline to sociology, psychology and market research. A pioneer in researching the effects of mass communication, he systematically studied, along with Frank Stanton, later president of CBS, the radio-listening habits of Americans in the '30s and '40s. Modern voter-projection methods grew out of his original studies of election behavior. For 29 years a professor at Columbia, Lazarsfeld was a lively and influential teacher who molded many of today...
Down-to-earth though he may appear on television, Frank Perdue is no bumpkin. He wears Gucci loafers and drives a blue Mercedes, lives in a condominium in Ocean City, Md. (he and his wife recently separated) and plays a plucky game of tennis when he can. Offscreen, he is even beginning to talk like an adman. He professes no fear of other firms that are beginning to emulate him by advertising brand-name chickens-because, he says, "nothing puts a bad product out of business faster than good advertising...