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...shambling, loudmouthed oaf from Texas. As she tells it, his cronies (Bobby Baker, Walter Jenkins, Joe Alsop, Sam Rayburn) maneuvered him into the vice-presidency but his legendary prowess at senatorial politics was a fraud. Mrs. Lincoln even claims that President Kennedy came to rely on Bob Kerr and Mike Mansfield when his programs were stalled on Capitol Hill, believing that Johnson hung around talking instead of getting legislation moving...
...JOSEPH KERR Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
21st Century Preview. New York has chosen a different way. While California educators prefer the masterly simplicity of their own plan, Clark Kerr considers New York's program "the most important single development in higher education today." It is working so well, observes Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, that New York "is well on its way to overtaking California in the quality of its public higher education." Justifiably proud, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller boasts: "If you want to preview the American university of the 21st century, look at what is happening in higher education at S.U.N.Y. today...
...colleges, and they merely pose a threat to the financial support that has made the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the best public institution in the South. Spreading resources equally throughout a state is no real solution. "Our great institutions are a great national asset," warns Clark Kerr, who is heading a Carnegie-financed study of higher education in the U.S. "You've got to concentrate talent to make it effective, since talents energize each other...
...many struggling private colleges or deplete the strength of the better ones-all of which face an economic crisis (TIME cover, June 23). Educators agree that the two sectors need each other. The University of California may have set high standards for all state schools, notes Clark Kerr, "but we got those standards from private institutions like Harvard and Yale...