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Edwin C. Whitehead of Greenwich, Conn.--who is the largest stockholder of Revlon, Inc.--has offered to fund an independent facility called "The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research" and staffed by MIT scientists...
DIED. Samuel Meek, 85, who as overseas manager of the J. Walter Thompson Co. helped build it into the world's largest advertising agency; in Greenwich, Conn. A former managing editor of the Yale Daily News, Meek was instrumental in helping two of his ex-staffers, Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, to obtain the financing to launch TIME magazine in 1923. Meek, who served on the Time Inc. board of directors for 48 years, joined Thompson in 1925 and expanded its fledgling international operations to 35 offices on six continents before retiring as vice chairman...
...skills exchange," suggested in Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society. He put the radical education idea into practice in Toronto in 1977; that nonprofit institution now has 30,000 students a year. Then in 1979 he rounded up $60,000 and opened for business in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. From an initial enrollment of 400 in its first month, Network has grown to 4,000 students a month so far this year...
...Hispanic half of the community by opening with Garcia Lorca's revenge tragedy of rural Spain, Blood Wedding, with five performances in Spanish. He planned to follow with John O'Keeffe's 1791 English comedy, Wild Oats. "Those thoughts," says Gardner, "came from sitting in west Greenwich Village apartments, not New Mexico. I assumed that because of the opera and the chamber festival, the audience would be sophisticated. When I talked to people about what they wanted to see, everybody, but absolutely everybody, said Neil Simon. I found we had an audience that knew about Hindemith...
...Heroin, however used, is a fiercely addictive drug, and treatment centers are receiving an influx of well-dressed, well-to-do men and women who have sorely underestimated it. In Manhattan alone, dozens of such people can be seen early each morning standing in line at the clinic of Greenwich House West, where they are administered methadone in an attempt to wean them from heroin...