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...research expenditures. Its School of Medicine has performed spectacular research in studying ways to enable dogs to breathe water, and the med school's Dr. Robert Guthrie is the developer of a simple test to spot brain-crippling phenylketonuria (PKU) in infants. Foundation grants have allowed Buffalo to snare Nobel Laureate Willard F. Libby and Physicist Edward Teller as visiting professors. Critic Leslie Fiedler teaches in the English department. S.U.N.Y.'s only law school is at Buffalo...
Peppering the Profs. "We've come into a new day," says Dr. Dan Dodson, chairman of N.Y.U.'s department of sociology and anthropology, while complaining that he sought seven new sociologists for his staff this year, but could snare only three because of the nationwide competition. "I fully expected to retire at $10,000 and live a fairly spartan life," beams a young Emory University sociologist who got 14 job offers-one at $18,000 a year-even though he was not seeking a change."I hardly know what to make of what's happened...
...transport plane, the C-5A. After months of deliberating over three proposals, the Defense Department gave the nod to Lockheed, whose bid for building 58 of the planes was lower by $250 million than the next lowest bid. Lockheed thus nosed out two tough competitors-Boeing and Douglas-to snare the aerospace industry's prize of the year. It will deliver the first C-5A in 1969, may get orders for far more than the original...
...want to see a talented fellow who can impersonate anybody. They want to meet Bat Masterson; they are not interested in an actor called Gene Barry, who happens to be a Jewish boy from Brooklyn. When a youthful fan at Canada's Calgary Stampede handed him a snare drum, and asked "Would you sign this, Bat?", Barry snapped: "My name is Gene Barry," and bashed his gold-headed Bat Masterson cane right through the head of the drum. He was not asked back...
...American Radical as Type is still fair game for anyone who wants to write about American History without being blamed for it. He's an ideal beast to track, since any snare laid for him will yield something, if only a few toenails and a tuft of hair. The hunters can return to town with the news that he just got away, the assumption that there is such a composite creature secure and even vindicated. The Hofstadters and the Goldmans have all fiddled extensively with his natural and social environment, and it has remained for Christopher Lasch to lead...