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Weathermen. Since becoming editor seven years ago, Winship has given direction to a paper that was once singularly haphazard. His success surprised some staffers, who initially regarded him as a lightweight. City-room cynics used to grumble that he had married his money (Elizabeth Coolidge, who writes an advice column for the paper) and inherited his job (his father, Laurence, edited the Globe from 1955 to 1965). He was also criticized for being less than overwhelmingly cerebral...
...Israelis at least had a handy and visible target to which to attach blame -however fairly or unfairly. But Europeans could not so easily deal with either exported Middle Eastern violence or the haphazard terrorism that has lately and bewilderingly become almost endemic in their own lands...
...interview with Mr. Lubow I described the process by which we pick section leaders as considerably less haphazard than it would appear from his article. To put the record straight, let me point out that applications from section leaders were indeed enlisted by an advertisement in the Crimson. Following this I interviewed all the applicants, described the philosophy of the course to them and encouraged them to submit a proposal for the type of section they would plan to run. Subsequently Professors Cleland and Kafatos and I met in a group with everyone who had submitted a proposal and from...
...touches upon the central problem in all the proposals for decentralizing the nation's large institutions. from auto plants to city governments. Self-determination easily becomes narrow parochialism. In Berkeley, principals of the conventional schools that accredit the small units worry that the alternative schools may become too haphazard to remain worthy of their diplomas. The small schools' volatile independence, on the other hand, is often precisely what makes them useful as escape valves...
Died. Basil O'Connor, 80, founder of the March of Dimes; in Phoenix. Research into the cause and treatment of polio was a poorly financed, haphazard affair when O'Connor and his crippled law partner Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the Warm Springs, Ga., therapy center in 1927. This led to the formation eleven years later of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, with O'Connor as its chief. The organization raised $870 million for treatment and research and sponsored the development of vaccines by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. Though he also served as president...