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...Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, dean of freshmen, has introduced a program to recruit upperclassmen to live in the Yard next year and help introduce freshmen to Harvard life...
...proved futile, so President Nixon has long been frustrated in finding a woman to work in top Government economic councils. Last week his talent search produced results. To occupy one of the three inner-sanctum seats on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Nixon named Dr. Marina von Neumann Whitman, 36, an economist at the University of Pittsburgh...
...daughter of Mathematician John von Neumann, co-developer of the theory of games, the comely Mrs. Whitman graduated from Radcliffe with the top scholastic average in her class ('56), earned a Ph.D. at Columbia, and later settled in Pittsburgh. She worked for the council as a senior staff economist in 1970-71 and last October was named to the Price Commission. There she has proved a tough and highly capable overseer of Phase II prices; she argued strongly against allowing coal companies to pass along, through higher prices, all of the exorbitant wage hike for miners approved...
Contrast the slick maximizers who now glide through Massachusetts Hall with the zany Yankees--William Bentinck-Smith, J. Boyd Britton, F. Skiddy von Stade Jr.--with whom Pusey surrounded himself. For that matter, contrast Pusey himself with Bok. Nathan Pusey was a nasty old man obsessed with reactionary beliefs and values. Yet, for all that, he was more human than Bok. He had human loves and hates, and he was willing to fight to the death with any weapon he had to preserve his principles inviolate...
President Nixon announced Monday the appointment of a Radcliffe graduate to the Council of Economic Advisors. Marina von Neumann Whitman '56, is the first woman to be appointed to the three member Presidential advisory committee...