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...years. The current M.E. is Robert Burdock, 45. His predecessor, Wilson Hirschfeld, was fired after a stream of complaints from reporters that he was killing or slanting stories to protect friends in the city administration. Hirschfeld, a Christian Scientist, also tried to reduce the paper's medical coverage. Fraser Kent, a respected medical reporter, quit in disgust, for this and other reasons. There was also bitterness over management's appeal for police assistance when Newspaper Guild members picketed the paper during a strike last October. Since December alone, six reporters and editors have left. The reporting staff...
...Institute Student Advisery Committee welcomes proposals for non-credit study groups in the areas of politics and public policy. See Janet Fraser or Nora Littlefield at the Institute of Politics for details, 78 Mount Auburn St., 495-9792. Deadline for submission of proposals for spring term 1973 study groups: December...
Indeed in labor contract negotiations expected to begin early next summer, the United Auto Workers intend to make a major point of its demand for increased participation by workers in decision-making within plants. "People look at life in different ways than they used to," says Douglas Fraser, a U.A.W. vice president. "Maybe we ought to stop talking about the work ethic and start talking about the life ethic...
...Mary Freed, a 65-year-old Minneapolis woman who suffers from diabetes and heart disease, wrote an angry letter to her Congressman, Democrat Donald M. Fraser. "Why in hell," she asked, "when a person gets to 65 and is no good, don't they take a person out and shoot him instead of torturing him to death?" Mrs. Freed was understandably upset. Like 28 million other Americans, she was getting a 20% increase in her Social Security check.* But to Mrs. Freed and many other elderly and/or disabled pensioners, that was bad news indeed. The raise would lift their...
...measures contain some ambiguous language, and if the House and Senate pass different measures, there may be no time to resolve the conflicts before Congress adjourns. The best chance for those who have been shortchanged would be for both chambers to unite immediately behind a bill, introduced by Congressman Fraser, clearly stipulating that Social Security recipients should continue to collect all their previous welfare benefits...