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...final issue to be resolved is the often-outspoken disapproval by undergraduates of the administration's plans. Williams appears likely to be more successful at dealing with students than his predecessor, Andrew F. Brimmer, Ford Visiting Professor of Business Economics. Williams says he is willing to talk to the students, something Brimmer refused...
...honorable and well-paid profession," Peterson said. "All youngsters are not equipped to go to college... all of them have different aptitudes and attitudes." Harvard fit into things thusly: "Harvard stands for excellence and high standards and there is nothing wrong with that." The Boston Globe called Peterson "outspoken" for all that, which is true in that a lot, maybe most, of the people at Harvard probably agree with him but almost none would...
Over the past two years, Chippewa Dennis Banks has emerged as an angry and outspoken leader of the militant American Indian Movement. With his hair in braids, he has preached a return to traditional Indian ways, including the ancient religions and methods of education. He wants Indian tribes to abandon their white-imposed system of elections and revert to a selection of chiefs by a kind of consensus of medicine men and district leaders...
Greenspan is not likely to make the same mistake twice, especially because Malkiel, 42, and MacAvoy, 41, are at least as independent and outspoken as their predecessors. Of MacAvoy, a friend says, "Paul has a Chicago temper. He will stand up and take you apart." Philosophically, both men share Greenspan's free-market approach to economics, though neither is considered an ideologue...
DONALD K. ("DEKE") SLAYTON, 51, docking-module pilot, is the oldest and among the toughest and most outspoken Americans ever to orbit the earth. A ruggedly handsome World War II bomber pilot, Wisconsin-born Slayton studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Minnesota; he and ins wife Marjory have an 18-year-old son. Slayton was one of the seven original Mercury astronauts. Only two months before ins scheduled liftoff, however, doctors grounded inm because of an occasional irregularity in ins heartbeat. Bitterly disappointed ("I got zapped by a three-man board of civilian doctors who didn't examine...