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...broadly educated. Far too many who start out with wide interests become narrowly focused in their fight to get into med school. Students blame the problem on admissions committees, which emphasize grades and test scores over the personal attributes and interests that may make an individual a superior doctor. Notes Utah University Psychologist Calvin Taylor: "Based on test scores, you cannot predict who is going to be the most knowledgeable physician ten years later." Perhaps, says Thomas, "there should be an admissions quota for the solid citizens who rank in the middle of their class...
Abandoning her 30-year vocation, Mansour protested: "Neither I nor my superiors were ever given the opportunity to appropriately present our case. I do not feel that I should or could witness to an obedience which, for me, would be irrational and blind." Added Mansour's former superior, Sister Maureen Mulcrone: "All men are making decisions. All women are being decided upon." Saying that they were "deeply saddened" and "profoundly disturbed" by the Vatican's decision, national leaders of the Sisters of Mercy are considering some sort of appeal, although chances of success are slim...
Another important alteration clashed with U.S. and NATO policy, which allows for the possibility of an Allied first-strike use of nuclear weapons; the theory is that this threat will deter an attack by the superior non-nuclear forces of the Soviet bloc. The bishops adopted an amendment offered by San Francisco's archbishop, John R. Quinn: "We do not perceive any situation in which the deliberate initiation of nuclear warfare on however restricted a scale can be morally justified...
Things are just as sticky in other major proxy battles, which sometimes sound like plots from next year's Dallas shows. In Houston, the future of Superior Oil (1982 sales: $2 billion) is being fought over by Howard B. Keck, 69, the founder's son, and Willametta Keck Day, 67, the founder's daughter. Day, who owns 4.5 million of Superior's 127.4 million outstanding shares, wants to set up a committee of outside directors to consider takeover offers for 45% or more of the company's stock, now selling at $35 but valued...
...supporters in the struggle is T. Boone Pickens, chairman of Mesa Petroleum and a takeover artist. Mesa already owns a reported 3.2 million shares in Superior and plans to vote them for Day's proposals in May. Pickens sees the Superior fight as a sign of things to come. Says he: "We are entering an era of stockholder awareness...