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...following 24 seniors have been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa: Thomas D. Balliet of North House and Frankfurt, Germany; Ben S. Bernanke of Winthrop House and Augusta, Ga.; Daniel E. Blustein of Leverett House and White Plains, N.Y.; Everett J. Bowman of Adams House and Wilmington, N.C.; Peter A. Carfagna Jr. of Eliot House and Cleveland, Ohio; Steven J. Carlip of South House and Middletown, Conn.; Wnders E. Carlsson of Dunster House and Vastervik, Sweden; Ronald M. Constine of Quincy House and San Francisco, Cal.; Douglas E. Critchlow of South House and Morrestown, N.J.; Thomas G. Goodwillie...
...designated a senior staffer as ombudsman-the person in charge of reviewing readers' complaints about fairness and accuracy. The Milwaukee Journal's "reader contact editor," David Runge, fields written and telephoned protests and asks reporters to provide proof for disputed articles. Cy Liberman. "public editor" of the Wilmington (Del.) News-Journal, writes an independent daily column that has recently slammed his papers' coverage of a proposed downtown mall as "too negative...
...print or on the air have unquestionably increased recently, some editors wonder whether the quality of public debate has improved much. A few are downright begrudging. "You give space to some of these jerks just because it establishes your credibility," says John G. Craig Jr., executive editor of the Wilmington papers. Cleveland's Vail is somewhat milder: "It's not right to allow everyone to say anything he wants. It becomes an imposition on our readers...
...family a lot." Suddenly, she says, the manager confessed, "I would never be doing this to a man. I would be telling him what a great opportunity it was." As a result of such sessions, says John M. Martin, chairman of Hercules Inc., a chemical producer based in Wilmington, Del., "many of our managers are weighing factors they had not given real attention to before, such as considering women for outside sales jobs." Realizing that women's own attitudes may block their progress, Boyle and Kirkman also conduct awareness sessions among female employees. After one session at Hercules...
...nearly two years, Watergate had divided and confused the American people. Now there was a unifying mood: relief that the doubt and turmoil were over. But the actual announcement came as an emotional anticlimax to many people. As one anti-Nixon man in Wilmington, Del., put it, "This just doesn't feel as good as I thought it would." On the other hand, many Nixon supporters quickly became resigned to abdication. "It's sort of like an inoculation," declared New Hampshire Forester Robert Breck, who had voted for tickets carrying Nixon's name in eleven elections...