Word: symposiums
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Along the way, Welch and Partner Marti-Ibáñez formed Medical Encyclopedia Inc., with themselves and their wives as sole owners. They made a go of it, with a liberal assist from the U.S. Each year for five years, the Antibiotics Division helped sponsor a symposium on antibiotics. The technical reports presented, often by experts from Government lab oratories and great universities, were published in an Antibiotics Annual for the profit of Medical Encyclopedia Inc. That netted Welch an extra...
Susskind has had a hand in close to 100 shows-not all good by any means, but at least suggesting effort-including New Jersey-WNTA's excellent Play of the Week and the weekly Susskind symposium. Open End. He also produced miscellaneous specials (notably NBC's Moon and Sixpence with Laurence Olivier), the CBS Du Pont Show of the Month, and helped turn out a series of NBC dramatic programs that established Art Carney, once known only as Jackie Gleason's second banana, as the season's outstanding TV actor. The Susskind influence had its drawbacks...
...fact: U.S. Roman Catholics have greatly increased both in number and influence during the past 50 years. The prospect of Catholics' becoming the majority group may once have horrified U.S. Protestants. To what extent that climate of opinion has changed is demonstrated by the New Republic with a symposium of three experts: Congregationalist John C. Bennett, dean of Manhattan's Interdenominational Union Theological Seminary; Unitarian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., professor emeritus of history at Harvard and Pulitzer-prize-winning author (The Age of Jackson); Missouri Synod Lutheran Jaroslav Pelikan, associate professor of historical theology at the University of Chicago...
Last summer 13 experts grappled with this prospect in a two-week symposium at Amherst College's Merrill Center for Economics in Southampton, N.Y. This month McGraw-Hill Book Co., sponsor of the meeting, published the results in a 304-page report (Financing Higher Education: 1960-70). Among the conclusions: 1) U.S. colleges will need 50% more teachers (450,000); 2) a full professor's salary must be doubled to an average $17,000. Key guesstimate: while U.S. higher education now spends $3.6 billion annually, by 1970 it will need at least $9.8 billion...