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...part series. Yesterdays article told about the problems American medicine is having delivering its product to the American consumer, and about the plan Harvard Medical School has devised to help ease the strain. Today's article tells about what the plan will do in the ghetto, why John Kenneth Galbraith is on its board of directors, and why government and medical officials across the country are watching to see whether the plan can work...
...corporation, the members of the health plan's board of directors come as a surprise. Several of them have Harvard connections--like Dr. Sidney Lee, another associate Med School dean, and Dr. Alonzo Yerby, director of Harvard's interfaculty program on health and medical care, and even John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics...
...Galbraith's inclusion suggests, the emphasis of the directors' board is on a wide range of expertise. This too is part of the plan's effort to set a national precedent. All the policy decisions for the plan's operation will be made by the board of directors; the men that Harvard has chosen to serve on its board of directors, then suggests what kind of broadly-based coalition it thinks is necessary to run new health plans...
...last third of the directors shows an even broader reach. This third will be made up of men who reflect what Pollack calls "the general interest"-- men like Galbraith and another director, Rev. James O'Donohoe, a dean of students from St. John's Seminary in Brighton...
Increasingly, students at Harvard are displaying an unnerving self-confidence in their own ability to do anything, an attitude that seems alien to the old academic virtue of modest contemplation at the foot of the savants. Celebrated professors like John Kenneth Galbraith and George Wald no longer command the ardent reverence once enjoyed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Perry Miller and Crane Brinton, the superstars of the '50s. Explains Mike Tompkins, a junior from Paris who is both a Presidential and a National Merit Scholar: "There are many admirable men at Harvard and they are appreciated. But we have very...