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Pittsburgh's steel tycoons-having razed slums, banished smog, tamed rivers, and put up a great medical center-paused seven years ago to mull over the stagnant University of Pittsburgh. The verdict: Pitt was a "trolley-car school" saved from obscurity only by a renowned football team and a bizarre 42-story Gothic skyscraper called the Cathedral of Learning. To revive Pitt, the tycoons resolved to spend $100 million, and to get the job done they hired as chancellor Edward H. Litchfield, who predicted that Pitt would soon emerge as "one of the world's greatest institutions." Pitt...
Litchfield is probably the only man in academic life who can buzz off for the weekend to his own 600-acre farm in his own airplane, a two-engine Aero Commander. Along with running Pitt, he is chairman of Smith-Corona Marchant's board of directors, a member of Stude baker's executive committee, a director of Avco Corp., and founder-chairman of Washington's Governmental Affairs Institute. Pitt pays him $45,000 a year, plus expenses. His extracurricular activities boost that to roughly...
...Detroit postal clerk, Litchfield has had experience teaching public administration at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, serving in a top slot under General Lucius Clay in postwar Germany, and as dean of Cornell's Graduate School of Business and Public Administration. He came to Pitt with a controversial theory that the same rules of management apply to any organization-armies, banks or universities...
...return, Flanagan got 5,000,000 cards packed with one billion bits of information, which is now being organized and analyzed by Pitt's computers. Among preliminary discoveries: >English teaching is slipshod: only one out of 100 kids produced a five-minute theme without mistakes in grammar, spelling or usage...
Doub, Kolodney, and Pereira, were defeated in the semi-finals by wrestlers from Syracuse, Army, and Pitt. The remaining seven entries from Harvard lost in the preliminaries...