Word: hiram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winds off the plains of western Nebraska drive swirls of grit and tumbleweed past the brick laboratories of Hiram Scott College, and the 1,500 students have all departed. The only people on guard at Hiram Scott nowadays are three patrolmen who take turns touring the 280-acre campus. And near by lives Hiram Scott's last president, Dr. Walter Weese, 53, a slim, sandy-haired scholar from Yale, who survives on savings and uses up the rice left behind in the college's empty kitchen...
Hand-to-Mouth. Hiram Scott's fate has struck 119 other small colleges and seminaries in the past three years, and another 254 may be broke by 1980, according to the American Association of Colleges. The problem: with few endowments or research grants, many survived hand-to-mouth on tuition fees. In recent years, the recession has driven students to cheaper public colleges. When the enrollment boom ended, financially weak colleges went bust...
...Hiram Scott had special problems of its own. It was one of five colleges founded by small-town businessmen on the model of Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa. All were inspired by Millard Roberts, the hard-sell Presbyterian minister who transformed Parsons during the early 1960s into a high-cost "second chance" for dropouts. Parsons eventually lost its accreditation and earned the nickname of "FlunkOut U." Four of the colleges modeled on it, including Hiram Scott, were destined for bankruptcy...
HAWAII: It was a tough job for the Democrats to find a man to oppose Republican Senator Hiram Fong. The man they came up with is the owner of a television station, Cecil Heftel, who has achieved any reputation he might have through appearances on his own station. Fong's popularity is somewhat of a mystery in a state which gave 80 per cent of its votes in the last Senate election to one of the most liberal members of the Senate, Daniel K. Inouye. But Fong, who is Chinese, has a large ethnic backing and lots of money...
...Hiram Jaffe (Gould) walks dogs in Central Park by day and writes skin books by night. All the while, his wife Dolly (Paula Prentiss) pelts him with Freudianisms that she has picked up as a psychiatrist's secretary...