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Moses, a soft-spoken, clean-shaven man in his mid-thirties, left a position as vice-president for student development at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York to assume the post here, which was left vacant by the retirement of long-time Freshman Dean F. Skiddy von Stade...
Died. Oskar Morgenstern, 75, a brilliant Princeton University economist who shook the foundations of classical economic theory with his work in the fields of econometrics and the theory of games (Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, co-authored with John von Neumann; The Limits of Economics); of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. Morgenstern noted that classical economics -and many of its "neoclassical" adherents-has exhibited a dismal track record in predicting and interpreting phenomena. After viewing numerous examples of multivariable decision making in game situations (poker was a Morgenstern favorite), he used mathematics, logic and the relatively simple economic-behavioral concept...
Died. Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen, 67, swashbuckling, humanitarian Swedish aristocrat; of gunshot wounds suffered during a surprise guerrilla attack; in Gode, Ethiopia. Von Rosen's daredevil "mercy" missions, which eventually spanned four decades and four wars, first brought him hero status during the 1936 Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The count once declared: "I was born in a castle, the son of a millionaire, and they tried to bring me up as a noble gentleman. But I was always naughty, always in trouble...
...With the Communist parties of Italy and France stridently confident about future elections, the flight of capital is bound to continue. Otto Wolff von Amerongen, who heads his own $1 billion steel firm and is chairman of the German chambers of commerce and industry, shudders at the thought of a leftist victory in a Common Market country. Says he: "We cannot digest within the Community a Communist-dominated government." That may be so, although other European commentators are less fearful about Communist participation in Cabinets. Meanwhile, the U.S. Commerce Department has set up a new office of foreign investment...
...Von Braun ignored both the criticism and the praise, concentrating on his goal of turning the space race into a vehicle for international cooperation. He once said: "I look forward to the day when mankind will join hands to apply the combined technological ingenuity of all nations to the exploration and utilization of outer space for peaceful uses." That day has not yet arrived, but Von Braun's work has certainly helped to bring it closer...