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Despite its lack of trumpeting, however, the agency's Democratic-appointed leaders-notably Education Director Herbert McArthur, former associate dean of arts and sciences at the University of Vermont-tried to make the endowment a "risk-taking agency." They warmly supported such projects as a study of 19th century comic strips and an archaeological dig by elementary students in New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto. Says McArthur: "The endowment must be committed to promoting change and experimentation. It must demonstrate that the liberal arts are important to urban people...
...University of California, San Diego, to head the endowment. Berman had complained in his 1968 book America in the Sixties: An Intellectual History of the "disastrous vulgarization of intellectual life"; he once described Bertrand Russell and Herbert Marcuse as "the Abbott and Costello of political philosophy." Dissatisfied with McArthur's projects, he set out to change the endowment's direction...
...discord became public this month after Berman tried unsuccessfully to veto three grants that had been endorsed by McArthur and approved by the endowment's 26-member governing council...
There has been no big medical emergency in Vinton County, Ohio, recently-no epidemics, no multiple accidents. Still, the 10,000 residents have been apprehensive. In February their doctor and neighbor of 22 years, Richard Bullock, left abruptly. No other physician lives or practices in the county seat of McArthur, and the closest hospital is 25 miles away. At last, an intensive search for a new general practitioner has succeeded; a new doctor will soon be at the consulting room desk on which Bullock left his stethoscope nine months...
Patient on Call. In 1948, when Bullock first came to McArthur, there were three other doctors to help meet the area's medical needs. By 1959, the death or departure of his colleagues had left him the sole physician. Vacations, even days off, became luxuries beyond his reach. "I had office hours six days a week," he recalls now, "but there wasn't a Sunday I didn't have to go into the office for one thing or another." Bullock attempted to give up work at the hospital, which consumed a large part of his time, only...