Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...BORTION and population control were the issues that brought on some of the strongest disagreements among the conservatives during a Friday panel discussion. In an earlier speech, Dr. Charles Rice had hit the abortion question hard, and received a standing ovation from his audience for the attack. This government has appointed a commission on population control headed by John D. Rockefeller III. This commission is promoting, for anywhere in the country, abortion on demand...
Ultimately, Bowker hopes to attack poor education at its roots: the public schools. He thinks that the open-admissions policy is already encouraging more slum kids to try for college and refuse to settle for general diplomas. Even under C.U.N.Y.'s new policy, those entering four-year colleges must either have earned an 80% average or rank in the top half of their school classes. Bowker is also mindful that C.U.N.Y. supplies 60% of the city's schoolteachers and reasons that his new minority students will eventually raise the schools' low ratio (11%) of minority teachers. Moreover...
Died. Alan D. Gruskin, 65, Manhattan art dealer and founder of the prestigious Midtown Galleries; of complications following a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting in 1932, Gruskin earned a reputation as a vigorous champion of contemporary American art; his one-man shows were the launching points for such prominent artists as William Palmer, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Arline Wingate and Herbert Ferber...
Died. Henry William Simon, 68, musicologist and vice president and executive editor of Simon & Schuster book publishers until his retirement in 1967; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A brother of the publishing firm's cofounder, Simon was noted for his knowledge of opera, authored A Treasury of Grand Opera and Festival of Opera, and maintained that "the best of grand operas are the most enduring and most popular of all stage works...
Died. Carl W. Ackerman, 80, newsman and longtime (1931-56) dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a reporter, Ackerman had his share of scoops, notably the first substantial account in 1918 of the execution of Russia's Czar Nicholas II and family. But Ackerman's greatest contribution was at Columbia, where he transformed an undistinguished school into a premier training ground for his profession. Journalism's best-known figures (among them, Walter Lippmann, Alexander Woollcott and Douglas Southall Freeman) came to lecture; working newsmen were brought...