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...Profile. Even now Justin Dart, a ruggedly handsome, 66-year-old, former All-Big Ten football guard from Northwestern, maintains that any of Dart Industries' divisions are for sale "if the price is right." Conversely, he is looking for profitable acquisitions but pledges that they will be "low profile" so as not to rile the Justice Department. In the interim he has designed an unusual management structure: Chairman Dart declines to appoint a president, holding that position himself and relying on seven group presidents who enjoy great autonomy. Says the blunt-spoken Justin Dart: "I don't have...
...Gray herself went to Bryn Mawr before receiving her doctorate from Radcliffe. She has taught at Bryn Mawr, Harvard and the University of Chicago, where her husband Charles now is a professor of English history. Since 1971 she has been dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern, and after describing herself as "stunned" by her new appointment, she adds: "I never expected to leave here. Now I have got to educate myself for this...
...most would-be doctors, Dennis Riston, 24, of Robbins, Ill., knew that medical school was going to be tough. But Riston, a graduate of one of the nation's largest predominantly black universities, in Louisiana, was hardly prepared for the obstacles he encountered after he was accepted at Northwestern University Medical School. "It was hell," he says. "I came up the year the black man was In. But I could not cope with the pace...
...Aided by Northwestern tutors, Riston finally mastered the study skills he needed to survive, and is now two years away from getting his M.D. He is more fortunate than many of the blacks and other minority-group students admitted to U.S. medical schools in the past several years. Many are graduates of small schools in the South and Southwest that did not provide the scientific background medical students must have. Others were simply unprepared for the work loads in medical school. As a result, a number of minority students have been forced to drop...
...downtown construction, reversing the familiar urban pattern of decay and turning the area into a bright and active commercial district. The new 51-story IDS tower, designed by Philip Johnson, is the tallest and most distinguished building between Chicago and San Francisco. Other adornments: Minoru Yamasaki's gracefully pillared Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. Building, and Gunnar Birkerts' Federal Reserve Bank, built along the sweeping lines of a suspension bridge...