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...Assemblies. Meeting with Falwell in California last week, Bakker pleaded with the Virginia preacher to assume the chairmanship of PTL's board. Falwell, who is already fully preoccupied with politics, pastoring and his own struggling cable-TV network, said he was not eager to take the PTL helm but felt pressed to do so. Bakker's current problems, said Falwell, might create a "backwash that could hurt every Gospel ministry in America, if not the world...
Despite attempts by Harvard to convince him to stay, the chairman of the History and Literature Department said yesterday he will accept an offer from UCLA to take the helm of one of its libraries and research centers...
Former Associate Dean for Facilities for the Faculty R. Thomas Quinn resigned last summer to enter the private sector, and Philip J. Parsons took the helm of the facilities department...
...part, Rosovsky seems to be enjoying himself as well. Having been at Harvard's helm since January 1 when Bok left for a three-month sabbatical, the veteran economics professor will have the run of Massachusetts Hall until Bok returns in April...
...hands are far from delicate, but the impression of them on the helm is something like that. "Feels more like a bull fiddle today than a violin," Conner muses to himself, and the wheel is some kind of concert instrument clearly. In a continuous search where one-tenth of a knot is considered a quantum find, he is thought to be worth a full knot himself. Puffs of wind can be calibrated on his shoulder blades. Tiny fractions of speed are visible to him on the sails. Like a fastidious haberdasher, he is constantly pinching and reshaping the fabric...