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...Hitch's biggest initial handicap is that he is a relatively unknown quantity to students and faculty. "Before his name came up," said Allan Mann, editor of U.C.L.A.'s Daily Bruin, "99% of us had never heard of him." Yet U.C.L.A. Student Government President Joseph Rubinstein considered it "a healthy sign that the regents have chosen an administrator-now we'll get things done." A faculty advisory committee reported that it was "happy" about the selection. No stranger to contentious factions in Government, Hitch has little apprehension of the potential frictions he will have to contend with...
...restive University of California shifted from a visionary academic planner to a pragmatic scholarly manager last week in its choice of a new president. The regents unanimously selected Charles Johnston Hitch, 57, an economist who helped revolutionize money management in the Pentagon before moving to Cal as vice president for finance two years ago. He will take office on Jan. 1, succeeding Clark Kerr, who was fired eight months ago. Hitch survived the fine screening of a regents selection committee that started with 261 names, eventually worked down to six, including HEW Secretary John Gardner, Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns...
...cool, urbane intellectual, Hitch spent 13 years as a top analyst of military problems for the Government-supported Rand Corp., where he devised the "systems analysis" approach to military spending. In 1961, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lured him to Washington as Comptroller and Assistant Secretary of Defense. During his five years in Washington, Hitch employed reasonableness and an instinct for diplomacy to coax skeptical Congressmen and scornful generals into accepting the notion that money should be assigned on the basis of military missions rather than service demands...
Preserving Initiative. Hitch grew up in Boonville, Mo. (pop. 7,090), 100 miles west of St. Louis, earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Arizona, and after a year of graduate study at Harvard, spent 15 years as a Rhodes Scholar and don at Oxford. He served with the Office of Strategic Services in World War II, taught briefly at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil before joining Rand in 1948. He and his wife Nancy have one adopted daughter...
...Hitch is obviously equipped to cope with the need for squeezing the most out of the university's tight operating budget ($251,500,000 this year). A prime reason for choosing Hitch, some regents indicated, was their feeling that what the nine-campus university needs most is a coordinator who can get the strong chancellors of each campus to work together, without squelching the initiative of each...