Word: meyerson
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...want to be president of Columbia University? The job has been wide open ever since Grayson Kirk resigned after the convulsive student uprising 14 months ago. Informal overtures by Columbia's trustees have since been rebuffed by John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Martin Meyerson, president of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Hopes recently rose when the trustees formally offered the post to Alexander Heard, 52, the able chancellor of Vanderbilt University (TIME, Aug. 1). But last week Heard too bowed out. "At this juncture," he wrote in a letter of regret...
...little figure in black tie and white jacket, bald head shining, talked to Dr. Thomas Lambo, a towering blue-black Nigerian psychiatrist in flowing tribal robes. The guests ranged from British Economist Austin Robinson and French Geographer Jean Gottmann to American urbanists like Robert Wood of M.I.T. and Martin Meyerson, president of the University of Buffalo. Mingling easily among them all was Dox-iadis, a silvery fox of a man-academic, politician, humanitarian, man of influence...
...turmoil and siege on campus, it is little wonder that Columbia University - without a president for much of that time - has been unable to find a willing candidate for the post. John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, showed no interest when overtures were made. Martin Meyerson, president of the State University of New York at Buffalo, demurred publicly after word of negotiations was leaked. Now the Columbia trustees have turned to Alexander Heard, 52, the able chancellor of Vanderbilt University and one of the small number of their preferred choices. At week's end Columbia...
...founders, Lloyd Rowdin of MIT and Martin Meyerson of Harvard, modeled the Center after traditional research centers in other fields--with the fundamental view that you can do urban research the same way as other research. The analogy stemmed at least partly from a desire to prove "legitimate" a field of research which was not at the time entirely respectable...
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan took over as director of the Center in 1966, trend-predictors expected him to chart a more policy-oriented course than his predecessors, Martin Meyerson and James Q. Wilson. While the basic orientation of the Center has remained armchair--and to all indication will remain so--the Center has begun to do policy-advising ("staff studies") with clients or agencies that request assistance, much as a consulting firm would...