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...reaches worldwide; they have no time to spend up in ivory towers because they are so often up in jet planes. On a recent trip to see how well the University of the Philippines was using an improvement grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Notre Dame's Father Theodore Hesburgh and Michigan State's John Hannah discovered that Princeton's Robert Goheen and Cornell's James Perkins had just left, after checking up on the use of U.S. foreign-aid funds. While there, they met Indiana's ex-president, Herman Wells, back from an advisory mission...
...effect is that the same names keep surfacing in an informal interlocking directorate. Among the chief boards are the National Science Foundation (Hesburgh, Clement, M.I.T.'s Julius Stratton, Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride), the Rockefeller Foundation (Hesburgh, Goheen, Caltech's Lee DuBridge), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Perkins, Goheen, Stratton, Hesburgh, McBride, Minnesota's O. Meredith Wilson, North Carolina's William Friday, U.C.L.A.'s Franklin Murphy, Illinois' David Henry), the Institute of International Education (Wilson, Hesburgh, Murphy, McBride, Henry...
...handle big tasks in a hurry, whether it be organizing foreign research stations in foreign countries, studying tropical agriculture for the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, advising NASA on moon exploration, or formulating a National Teachers Corps. "I've met with Frank Murphy so often," says Hesburgh, "I almost know what he's going to say before he says it. This group of presidents can get more done in an hour than other groups can in three weeks...
...Theodore Hesburgh, 48, Notre Dame. Freewheeling and decisive, he roams from Taiwan paddy fields to ice floes in Antarctica, retains an amazing grasp of detail of all he sees and hears, and considers his latest project, organizing an ecumenical study institute in Jerusalem, "a very big thing-but something you do before breakfast." He is a member of the National Science Board, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, consultant to the State Department. He spends 120 to 150 days a year off campus...
...Patently Preposterous." In granting Hesburgh's wish, Justice Greenberg set a precedent that may widely affect publishers and other moviemakers if it survives in higher courts. Because a man's name is a property right, Greenberg might have enjoined the film solely on the ground that Father Hesburgh, who was easily recognizable as Father Ryan, had not given his consent. But Greenberg went farther. A university's name is also a property right, he said. To be sure, others may freely exploit it, and for profit, by virtue of the public's "right to know...