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...project was originated by the University of Pittsburgh's Chancellor Dr. Edward H. Litchfield, who last year founded the Oakland Corp. as a private development company, and enlisted the support of a group of nonprofit city institutions. Fred Smith, who was the prime mover of the massive Prudential Research Center in Boston, was brought in as president and operating head (Litchfield is board chairman), and Architect Max Abramovitz, who designed the Philharmonic Hall in New York's Lincoln Center, was hired...
...going into business that students frequently confront their teachers when they go asking for a job. With U.S. business hungering for specialized talent, such top scholars as New York University Economist Marcus Nadler earn up to $300 a day as consultants to management. University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield is also chairman of Smith-Corona Marchant and a director of Studebaker and Avco Corp. The hub of this extracurricular activity is Boston, where some 1,000 space-age companies have grown up since World War II, most of them started there to exploit readily available brain power and many...
Much of Alsop's campaign has been conducted in similar humor. Thus a factory worker in Litchfield, having just received a political leaflet from the candidate's own hand, sneered: "I guess you're for God, motherhood and country, ain't you?" Retorted Alsop: "That's right. And I'm also against man-eating sharks." An hour later, Alsop approached a suburban housewife near Torrington and said: "Have one of my biographies, madam. There's not a lie in it. A few exaggerations, perhaps...
...Litchfield has other problems. His eleven-month "trimester plan," now copied by some 30 other colleges, tends to stumble along at half-speed in the summer. He has raised tuition by a whopping 50%, so that undergraduate enrollment is down considerably...
...plus side, Litchfield has drastically raised entrance standards, created dormitories that changed Pitt's provincial student body from 96% Pennsylvanians to 75% now. The history department is far better; anthropology has grown from nothing to good. Last year Litchfield won faculty respect when the state legislature, which supplies 16% of Pitt's budget, scented "subversive" activities at the university. Litchfield spent $100,000 investigating the case of a professor accused of being a Communist fronter, cleared him in an eloquent brief defending Pitt's inalienable right to "free inquiry." Sensitive to criticism. Litchfield is given to hiring...