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...academic and cultural institutions seldom touch the lives of most of its 624,900 residents, who are mainly lower-middle class in income and outlook, fiercely loyal to their own ethnic backgrounds and neighborhoods. "Boston is a racist city and always has been," says Boston College Law Professor Leonard Strickman...
Other important busing plans - notably the 20,000-student shuffle that will take place next fall in Boston - will be unaffected because city lines will not be crossed. Says Boston College Law Professor Leonard Strickman: "The suburbs have been let off the hook from participating in the attempt to solve the education problems of the cities on which they rely so heavily...
...Barzun's Columbia, because it not only is one of New York's largest real estate owners but also maintains a private Wall Street office to oversee investment of its endowment money. He takes a painstakingly detailed look at Columbia's involvement with the unsuccessful Strickman cigarette filter. As things have turned out, the filter has yet to make any money for Columbia. But the university's initial endorsement pushed cigarette stock prices so high that the University of Texas was able to sell 59,000 shares of R. J. Reynolds and 24,000 shares...
...despite her inherent strengths, the spring crisis struck Columbia when her self-confidence was shaken by the decline in relative position in AAUP rankings of graduate departments, the exclusion from a Ford Foundation grant for improvement of graduate studies, the resignations of a number of senior professors, and the Strickman filter incident...
...Canadian manufacturers go ahead with the filter, they will pay a penny a pack in royalties to a new charitable foundation established by Strickman and headed by Robert A. Katz, secretary and counsel of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Inc. Besides advance payments of $200,000 apiece, royalties from the two companies could eventually amount to $5,000,000 a year. And because Strickman refuses to grant exclusive licenses, the foundation could still hope to reap far bigger returns from any-or all-of the leading U.S. cigarette companies. Even Columbia would not be left out in the cold. Though...