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...Kate Merritt, a second-year student, echoed this objection. "My human behavior professor was scared to death of the issue...At least one-third of the guys in my section would be impossible for a women to work with. The school is abdicating a responsibility by not making the men realize that they may have to report to a female executive someday...
...coup was gaining control in 1949 of Capitol Transit, the Washington, B.C., bus system, for $2.2 million and selling it seven years later for $13.5 million-after Congress investigated sharp fare increases, deteriorating service and alleged financial improprieties, and then refused to renew his franchise. He bought control of Merritt-Chapman & Scott, a respected construction firm, and in half a dozen years had raised its net worth from $8 million to $132 million. He also used the firm to absorb companies that made everything from ships (the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk) to movies (The Babe Ruth Story). He failed...
...others, like Jeff Wells, Edsa Takkanen, Penny DeMoss and Kim Merritt, the garage was a place to sit and contemplate what it was that made the difference between a win and just a good effort...
DIED. Henry Merritt Wriston, 88, president of Brown University (1937-55) and blue-ribbon Government panelist; in Manhattan. At Brown, Wriston established a reputation as an iconoclast, de-emphasizing survey courses and attracting top professors and freeing them of administrative tasks. Describing himself as "a perpetually dissatisfied Republican," Wriston defended academic freedom from assaults by the House Un-American Activities Committee as vigorously as he opposed the New Deal. In 1954 he headed John Foster Dulles' committee for the reorganization of the diplomatic service, and in 1960 he directed the President's Commission on National Goals, an ambitious...
...well qualified for the bench. But in at least four cases, political connections eased the way, and four other appointments promoted district judges previously named under predominantly political sponsorship. For example, Robert Vance, nominee for the Fifth Circuit, is the longtime Alabama Democratic Party chairman; Tennessee's Gilbert Merritt had contributed to Democratic Senator James Sasser's 1976 campaign (as had Merritt's two minor children); Thomas Tang of Arizona has close ties to Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini. Yet even Republicans acknowledge that the nominees have good credentials, and the four trial court judges being moved...