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...Medicine. Emory has the Deep South's first fully accredited law school and a topflight medical school that supervises six hospitals, delivers 7,000 babies a year, has a $3,000,000 research budget. Medical alumni include two of the world's leading cancer fighters: Drs. John R. Heller Jr. and the late Thomas M. Rivers. The university also produced three noted historians-Yale's C. Vann Woodward, Virginia's Dumas Malone, Stanford's David Potter -plus Columbia Classicist Moses Hadas (see story below), Golfer Bobby Jones and the late Veep Alben Barkley...
...finagled a job as investigator. This was the Prohibition era and the days when the Harding Administration was brewing up the notorious Teapot Dome scandal. Means was all over the place: he hauled in huge profits selling liquor permits (ostensibly for medicinal and other restricted purposes), and became a topflight influence peddler. He wrote a book about President Harding in which he "revealed" that Mrs. Harding herself had murdered her husband with poison. He was tossed out of the Government, eventually nailed on charges of attempted bribery and violating the Prohibition laws, and locked up for more than three years...
...scholarly spadework that lies behind these new translations has appeared in topflight technical journals - such as the Catholic Biblical Quarterly in the U.S. and Revue Biblique put out by the Ecole Biblique - which are read and respected by scholars of all faiths. Protestant Bible students have high regard for the work of such men as Catholic University's Semitics expert, Monsignor Patrick Skehan, Father David Stanley of the State University of Iowa, Jesuit John McKenzie of Loyola University of Chicago. Says W. D. Davies, professor of Biblical Theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "I wouldn...
What force-feeds the multiversity is federal money-the impact of Government science research that began flooding the universities in World War II. Today the U.S. pays for about 75% of all university research; since it demands the best, more than half the money goes to only six topflight universities, notably California. The result is what Kerr calls the "federal grant" university, responding more to Government needs than to its own desires. Compared with some of his fellow presidents, Kerr is unworried about this relationship, calling it "enormously productive in enlarging the pool of scientific ideas and skills...
Milledgeville has now been taken out of woolhat politics and reformed by a topflight psychiatrist imported from New York, Dr. Irville MacKinnon. Its budget is up from $2.49 per patient per day to $3.29 (against a national average of $5.40). It has 50 psychiatric doctors, admits 6,000 new patients a year, and sends 60% of them home within 90 days...