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...Collegiality is an appropriate criterion if I wanted to join a prestigious country club and play well with the other children,” said Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld, “but it is not that which is necessary to determine whether someone is a good professor...
...case involved Stephen Wiesenfeld, 31, an Edison, N.J., widower whose wife Paula died in childbirth in 1972. Paula had worked as a teacher, earning about $10,000 a year; her husband, a self-employed consultant, had an income of $2,188 during the year before her death. Left to care for their infant son Jason. Wiesenfeld applied for Social Security benefits for the boy and himself. Though he won an award for Jason. Wiesenfeld was told he was ineligible because such benefits were available only to widows. Wiesenfeld sued in federal district court in Newark, charging that the act denied...
...When the wife of Mathematician Stephen Wiesenfeld, 29, died in childbirth last year and left him with a son, Wiesenfeld concluded that he deserved help as much as any widow. But New Jersey authorities turned down his application for "mother's insurance benefits" under the Social Security Act. Suing on Wiesenfeld's behalf in U.S. District Court, the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union complained that benefits are being denied him only because he is a father and a widower, instead of a mother and a widow. Therefore, the suit alleges...
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