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...most widely publicized endorsement of National Service came in a 1979 study called Youth and the Needs of the Nation, a Ford Foundation-financed effort, co-chaired by Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, former president of Hunter College, and Harris Wofford, long time Kennedy associate, former president of Bryn Mawr, and, like Wexler, a pillar of the liberal community. The report calls for engaging "a million or more young people in a new system of voluntary National Service designed to help meet this country's non-military needs." Though the report's conclusion calls for a "voluntary" program, it repeatedly cites...
When she got the job in 1975, Economist Rivlin, 48, an Indiana-bred Bryn Mawr magna who had labored 22 years at the left-listing Brookings Institution and in the bureaucracy, faced two hurdles. Many in Capitol Hill's chauvinist bastion gossiped that the Judy Garland look-alike would be, well, too feminist, too liberal. But she has proved that sex does not count in political economics, and her balanced judgments have made her popular even with conservatives...
DIED. Ida P. Rolf, 82, messianic inventor of "rolfing," a method of manipulating the body that, according to her followers, enhances physical and emotional wellbeing; of complications following surgery; in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Trained as a biochemist, she spent 40 years promoting her belief that everyone has "a relationship with gravity," which can be perfected by aligning "man's [energy] field with the field of the earth." A person is properly positioned, she taught, when his ear, shoulder, hip, knee and ankle are lined up vertically; that posture is achieved through a painful massage technique that is today administered...
Rivlin was graduated from Bryn Mawr and earned a doctorate in economics at Radcliffe. She is widely regarded as one of the nation's most effective economic technicians, and knows Washington's power game well. A nominal liberal, she was an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Lyndon Johnson and, in the early '70s, specialized in budget watching at the Washington-based Brookings Institution. Says Rivlin, who is a divorced mother of three: "Things are better now for women economists, but history is difficult to break. The ranks are very thin in my age group...
...rate colleges Did you know that the University of Cincinnati has more social prestige than Sarah Lawrence, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr? Or that the quality of the faculty at Kutztown State College in Kutztown, Pa., is higher than at Smith, Oberlin and Yale? These are just a few of the amazing aperçus served up in a new $7.95 guide to U.S. colleges published last month by the New American Library and prepared by veteran Guide Author Gene R. Hawes. Billed as "A New Kind of College Guide that Reports on What You Want to Know Most-and First...