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...Cadillacs were Frank Sinatra, escorting longtime Companion Barbara Marx; U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone and his wife Barbara; Standard Oil of Indiana Chairman John Swearingen and his wife Bonnie; Los Angeles Auto Dealer Holmes Tuttle, a star G.O.P. fund raiser, and his wife Virginia; and onetime Radio Star Freeman Gosden (Amos of Amos 'n' Andy) and his wife Jane. Comedian Bob Hope arrived at the wheel of a station wagon with Wife Dolores. Notably absent: Spiro T. Agnew, who was ensconced near by as a house guest of Sinatra...
Limitations on tenured hiring enforced by the budget-conscious Dean's office played a major part in the senior faculty's decision to appoint Freeman. A source in the department said last week that Rosovsky told the senior faculty--before it made the decision on Freeman--that a tenured appointment could only be justified in "an academic field the department is short...
Rosovsky's statement gave Freeman an advantage over both Roberts and Green: Freeman, as a labor economist, apparently benefited from the anticipated shortage in that field to be caused by the departure of John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor. Dunlop has been appointed Secretary of Labor and awaits confirmation by the Senate...
...Freeman also benefited from the senior faculty's criteria for tenure--research and writing rather that teaching. Karl E. Case, head tutor in Economics, said this week that Roberts "has consistently been among the three most popular teachers in the department," according to the department's undergraduate questionnaire...
Case also said that Freeman's teaching has been rated by students as "extremely, mediocre," but that Freeman apparently was tenured on the strength of his "massive research and publishing...