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...fact, King has asked Washington and Edward Gardner--who engineered a successful minority voter registration drive in Chicago--to come to Boston for the same purpose. It is estimated that less than 50 percent of Boston Blacks are currently registered...
...Gardner was appointed president of the University of Utah. Gardner, who is a Mormon, was able to ease the rivalry between Mormons and non-Mormons over key appointments to the university. He named deans and other officials without any regard to their religions. By 1981, he had led an expansion drive that raised the budget from $102 million to $264 million, and by 1982 the number of students had increased from 19,000 to 24,365. Utah's math and biology departments were rated "the most improved" during the past five years by the Conference Board of Associated Research...
...August 1981, the White House chose Gardner to head the President's National Commission on Excellence in Education, an 18-member, blue-ribbon group that is studying ways of bolstering the nation's educational system. The commission's final report is due next month. "It will be hard-hitting," Gardner promises...
During his years at Utah, Gardner, with his wife Elizabeth, a graduate of the University of California (San Francisco), and their four daughters, ages 13 to 22, got away as often as he could to a cabin that has no telephone, located on an island in a Montana lake. Gardner acknowledges that he was "comfortable" at Utah and that, at 49, he was perhaps too young to have that feeling. After considering the offer for 24 hours, he agreed to go to California and a life, as his daughter Lisa knows, that is bound to be a good deal less...
...from the ancient Semites but from a Turkic national group in Eastern Europe that had converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages. Isaac Bashevis Singer replied, "[He] tries so hard to show that the Jews are not even Jews, he fails also as a writer." Science Writer Martin Gardner, reviewing The Roots of Coincidence (1972), taxed the author with ignoring research that contradicts the claims of parapsychologists. Even Koestler's monumental and erudite The Act of Creation (1964) caused the eminent zoologist Sir Peter Medawar to grumble that Koestler had "no real grasp of how scientists go about their...