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...succeed the retiring A. Bartlett Giamatti, there was little doubt the university had picked a man of very proper parts. "We had a rather long list of qualities we were looking for," said Cyrus R. Vance, former Secretary of State and head of the search committee, "and Benno C. Schmidt Jr. had more of them than anyone else." That takes in a lot of people, more than 400 original prospects...
...Schmidt, 43, filled two of Yale's requisites by being an alumnus ('63) and a renowned scholar: he presently serves as dean of the Columbia Law School and is a ranking expert on constitutional law. Among his books is Freedom of the Press vs. Public Access (1977), a bellwether text on media rights. PBS viewers know him as a probing moderator on last year's series The Constitution: A Delicate Balance. His academic rise has been dramatic. After getting his LL.B. at Yale in 1966, Schmidt clerked for Chief Justice Earl Warren, joined the Columbia faculty in 1969. Before being...
...bustling Schmidt retains a boyish quality, never more so than when he is rooting for his favorite athletes, hockey's New York Rangers. His engaging lack of inhibition prompted him to accept a cameo role as a doctor in Woody Allen's forthcoming film Hannah and Her Sisters. Truth to tell, the movie appearance was set up by Schmidt's third wife, Helen Cutting Whitney, producer and director of ABC and PBS documentaries on such topics as McCarthyism and homosexuality, and co-author, with Eugenia Zuckerman, of a feature-film script titled K.589...
...Schmidt pronounces himself "thrilled about getting up there and digging into" the prestigious office atop the 284-year-old school. At the same time, he admits to being "somewhat apprehensive about the complexity" of his role as Yale's 20th president. That role has been made easier by the incumbency of Giamatti, 48, who more than doubled Yale's endowment to a formidable $1.3 billion and pushed forward a $25 million building-renovation program. Giamatti, who has been offered a sabbatical from Yale and is contemplating a plunge into politics, indicated that eight years of fretting over money and maintenance...
...editorialized La Prensa Libre, "that we requested an opinion only to lightly ignore it." Elsewhere, evidence is mounting that the message will not be discounted. In the Dominican Republic, six publishers are pressing a court challenge against that nation's colegio. And in Peru, Editor Enrique Zileri sees the Schmidt decision as the end of any oppressive threat from licensing. He exulted, "It can't happen here." Although gratified about the victory, Attorney Marks feels the battle has barely been joined. Said he: "Now we've got to go to work on the legislatures of those other countries...