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...from Benton & Bowles at 35. In 1943, as a vice president of the University of Chicago, he acquired the faltering Encyclopaedia Britannica from Sears, Roebuck and put up $100,000 of his own money as working capital to allay fears of the school's worried trustees. Under his stewardship, the encyclopedia's sales zoomed during the next two decades from $3,000,000 to $125 million, netting the university $25 million in royalties. Benton was a staunch liberal and a bitter foe of Joe McCarthy in his Senate days (1949-53). An early UNESCO supporter, he ultimately served...
Epps has two new areas of administrative concern under his stewardship. One he calls "student health and welfare." This takes him into the diverse realms of the University Health Services, the Bureau of Study Counsel, and student security. Epps's memorandum on undergraduate security was a major factor in the recent decision to lock up the Yard. "I thought that at a minimum we should ensure people's safety," he says...
...many legitimate questions about Gray's stewardship of the FBI have been raised that the image of the bureau would be seriously impaired by his confirmation. That image, under Hoover, was always overburnished by excessive pressagentry. Americans grew up in the 1930s listening to radio's Gangbusters, and kids eagerly wrote in to get tin badges as "Junior G-Men." Hoover used his headquarters flacks to ghostwrite hundreds of magazine articles glorifying the FBI under his byline. Then came a succession of movies (The House on 92nd Street, I Was a Communist for the FBI). In its prime...
...Studies. Dissenters mailed copies of the minutes of faculty discussions to sympathetic colleagues. They also sent letters critical of Bellah's work to the New York Times, a step that Bellah called "contemptible." Then they demanded that the trustees appoint an outside commission to evaluate Kaysen's stewardship-which amounted to a vote of no confidence...
...economy, slowly revving up since the late 1940s with the help of a steady infusion of American economic and military aid, has lately taken off under the austere stewardship of the rightist military regime of Colonel George Papadopoulos. The junta, which seized power in a bloodless 1967 coup, has wooed foreign investors with tax breaks and low-interest loans, and has helped to create a healthy business climate by ruthlessly suppressing political unrest. By last December, when postwar American aid had reached $3.95 billion, the regime announced proudly that further handouts would no longer be needed...