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...Like the fund-raising inaugural ball scheduled for next week, the helmet directive was more gesture than substance, but it was the kind of gesture that had been sadly missing around city hall. A more pragmatic innovation is Stokes's plan to fully integrate police precinct squads regardless of the neighborhoods they serve. He tried to hire Edward Logue to head Cleveland's urban-renewal program, but Logue declined to leave Boston, instead will serve Stokes on a consulting basis. Meanwhile, Stokes is talent-hunting for a full-time urban-renewal director and other top officials...
Other Trails. On the West Coast, California's Governor Ronald Reagan turned an invitation to the U.S.C.-Oregon State football game into an excuse for two days of non-campaigning in the Pacific Northwest. He showed up in Seattle for a G.O.P. fund-raising lunch, attended a party dinner in Portland that evening, rode horseback in the Veterans' Day Parade in Albany, Ore., the following day. Reagan, of course, still bills himself as a noncandidate, but his protestations of late have rung increasingly hollow...
With his devaluation, Gestido finally did what the International Monetary Fund has been urging him to do for months. In the past, Gestido's economic policy stressed self-help over foreign loans, since help from abroad almost always demands austerity measures. Then last March, he made his first shift in policy and appealed to the IMF for help, austerity or not. "The road of isolationism and internal effort," he said in a televised speech, "is too long, painful and perhaps sterile in today's world." Five of Gestido's eleven Cabinet ministers quickly resigned, and when insults...
...science has become ever more complex, teaching it has become ever more costly. Just how expensive was indicated this week by Harvard, which announced a new $48.7 million fund-raising drive to improve its undergraduate science programs. A major objective is to meet the accelerating demand for knowledge and research facilities from increasingly sophisticated science majors, who represent about one quarter of Harvard's undergraduates. "We're teaching freshmen things I didn't learn until I was a graduate student," says Nobel Physics Professor Edward Purcell. The University also wants to beef up its general-education science...
...Advocate raised $400 of this amount from advertising and past sales. Its Board of Trustees gave emergency assistance of another $400 from interest on the money already amassed in the Advocate's $100,000 Endowment Fund Drive...