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Hurst's heuristic methods have begun to achieve amazing results. Reports TIME Correspondent Jacob E. Simms: "There is a certain hardness to the student body. The usual buzzing and chatter are absent. An almost solemn silence permeates the hallways. Intense arguments go on in the student lounge. Even basketball seems to be played with unusual seriousness." The dropout rate has plummeted; this year less than 10% of Hurst's students failed to complete each semester. Members of last year's graduating class were accepted at colleges from the University of Illinois to Howard to Berkeley...
...relations with Capitol Hill, Richardson has achieved marked improvements, impressing congressional committees with his grasp of detail, which was demonstrated once again last week as the Senate Finance Committee began hearings on the revised welfare re-form bill supported by the Administration. Says New York's Senator Jacob Javits: "Sure, there is always a touch of arrogance. But it is not empty. He's got something to back it up that commands respect." Richardson revamped the congressional liaison staff and spends more time than Finch did in coddling Congressmen. When differences crop up, they tend now to exonerate...
Died. Lord Astor of Hever, 85, patriarch of the Astor family's British branch, and between 1922 and 1959 publisher of the London Times; of heart disease; in Cannes, France. A great-great-grandson of the American fur trader who founded the family fortune, John Jacob Astor V began his 23-year career in the House of Commons in 1922, the same year he bought control of the Times. Elevated to the peerage in 1956, he eventually left Britain to escape heavy death duties...
...morale and integral to both the resolution of the war and his own chances of reelection. Last week, for example, several votes for the unsuccessful McGovern-Hatfield amendment to set a Dec. 31, 1971 deadline for U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam came from Senators troubled by the drug problem. Jacob Javits of New York saw drug abuse as "the kind of issue that can change the whole situation," and warned that "the American people could get so fed up that the troops will all be out of there faster than McGovern, Hatfield or anybody else ever dreamed of, regardless...
...first political and then economic, legally acquired and wisely used." Melvin Maddocks of the Christian Science Monitor echoes the confusions of the class of '71 when he writes, "I guess I'm not sure Harvard really exists. But then, I had the same problem when I was there." And, Jacob Leed, an English professor at Kent State University, simply writes...