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Erie Stanley Gardner might call it The Case of the Shrinking Celebrity. Three times in the past year, TV's Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, 47, has slipped into South Viet Nam, visited some 8,000 U.S. servicemen stationed in remote areas, sometimes with Viet Cong shells bursting near by, and issued no publicity about it to boost his ratings. He jotted down the names of thousands of servicemen whose relations he called up for a personal report when he got back. Burr hobbled through his most recent Jeep-and-helicopter round last month despite a painfully pinched leg nerve...
...well as brainpower. The scholastically brilliant will invent new computers, but the academically average must know how to run them. And although the U.S. has always provided an outstanding education to some, the wave of reform has given a better education to all. Says Carnegie Corporation President John Gardner, chairman of the presidential task force on educational goals: "Gifted and non-gifted students are being challenged to perform closer to the limit of their abilities...
...campaign manager in the upset election of Governor Philip Hoff (Vermont's first Democrat in 107 years), last year suddenly resigned as Hoff's chief aide and state party chairman with a public announcement that he was an incurable alcoholic; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Gardner, Mass...
...Sert and Gardner E. Campbell, Jr., assistant to the dean of the Faculty of Design for Financial Development, are studying the possibility of getting government aid. "We're contemplating a series of development projects that would get us some financial help," Sert explained...
...organizations in Washington sit atop a hotter spot these days than the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The Council, whose prestige soared in Chairman Walter Heller's last months as a result of the tax cut's success, has a new chairman-Gardner Ackley-and two relatively new members who have yet to prove themselves in their posts. As the President's first line of economic advice, the Council will bear heavy responsibility in the coming months for deciding what methods to adopt to keep the economy moving upward...