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...Distraught, Hansel launched a personal crusade to save the threatened species. In 1965, unimpressed by the botanists who believed that the American elm was doomed, Hansel set up Elms Unlimited, which has since promoted the planting of 20,000 elm seedlings. In 1967 he changed the 500-member organization's name to Elm Research Institute and aimed it at the root of the problem. Said he: "The fight against Dutch elm disease will be won in the laboratory...
Friends of the symphony bridled. Several orchestra members signed an anti-Steinberg telegram to the Globe. The protest went unheeded. Similarly, a Symphony Orchestra board of trustees member wrote to Herald Traveler Publisher Harold E. Clancy expressing dismay that the paper had hired "one of [Steinberg's] young imitators. We think that perhaps the Herald might be in a position to alter its course...
...SLOPPY SERVICE. Consumers Union, a nonprofit, private testing organization of which Nader is a board member, distributed 20 deliberately broken TV sets to New York City homes and asked neighborhood repairmen to fix them: only three of the 20 were properly serviced. Television, air-conditioner and many other repairmen commonly refuse even to look at a cantankerous appliance until they collect a substantial "estimate fee." Texas authorities have forced finance companies to return $1,900,000 to victims of unscrupulous and outrageously sloppy home-improvement firms. Automobile repairing has broken down so badly that automakers have instituted training programs...
Despite the drama in the announcement, and the undoubted importance of the issues involved, the coming review will lack most of the customary trappings of major policy re-examinations at Harvard. There'll be no blue-ribbon committee headed by a nationally-known Faculty member supervising the work, and perhaps not even a nicely bound report published by the Harvard University Press. Rather, the College will take stock of these educational issues in a series of meetings in the Houses, each of which will produce proposals of greater or lesser quality, which will then somehow come before the Faculty, either...
...NCAA has gone too far when it begins to exploit its member colleges for its own sometimes selfish purposes. Clearly, Yale is little more than the battleground for another in a series of dreary NCAA-AAU squabbles, and the penalizing of Yale, in sanctimonious frustration, makes the Bulldogs little more than whipping boys...