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...races." He lost the bet-Queens District Attorney Frank O'Connor defeated him handily. The day after the election, the telephone rang: the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center asked him to be director. Moynihan decided to spend a quieter year first, took a fellowship at Wesleyan (in Connecticut), then accepted the center's offer...
...well-being seems to work. The people have never had to labor very hard; yams, bananas and copra grow abundantly for the picking. When he reaches 16, each youth is entitled to eight free acres of land for his own use. Though most Tongans were converted to Christianity by Wesleyan and Catholic missionaries, they have managed to retain their own gods too. Their monarchy is indigenous and one of the world's oldest: Tupou IV traces his lineage back a thousand years, and his is the last surviving Polynesian kingdom in Oceania...
Educated at Wesleyan and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Wriston has had a hand in much of First National City's expansion. The son of Henry Merritt Wriston, longtime (1937-55) president of Brown University, he joined the bank in 1946 after a stint in the foreign service and wartime Army duty, has headed the bank's sprawling overseas division since 1959. Amiably informal and scornful of organization charts-"We all work together," he says, "and when I'm in trouble I ask somebody, and when I'm not I don't"-Wriston...
...Shelf. Wesleyan gives its students plenty of say in deciding what the university's future will be. Two students serve on the school's permanent educational-policy committee, a group Butterfield calls "the key to change." Three students are helping incoming President Edwin Etherington, former head of the American Stock Exchange (TIME, July 22), on a study of education policies and programs. A student committee on university development offers advice on campus construction plans. Wesleyan undergraduates also rate their professors. And their voices are not ignored: when Senior Dave Eger objected to administration plans to build a hockey...
Where, with all its money, is Wesleyan heading? Etherington hopes that all of the planning committees and consultants will come up with a variety of options. Wesleyan might go coed, develop new graduate studies, add law or medical schools, or reach out to expand its community services. Whatever the eventual choices, Wesleyan can afford to take its time. Says Etherington, with comfortable and enviable assurance: "The worst way to spend money is to buy the first thing off the shelf...