Word: provost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior staff economist on John Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs in the Johnson Administration. At Yale, he has not only taught international economics for eleven years but also served as the university's provost from 1972 to '74. Says Yale President Kingman Brewster: "He has one of the most rigorous and honest minds I have encountered...
...spokesman for Tufts Provost Kathryn McCarthy said yesterday that administrators have not yet examined the case...
Tuition at Princeton will go up next year, Richard R. Spies, assistant provost said yesterday, although he refused to disclose by how much...
Another plus for today's South, says Heard, is a freer "market of intellectual talent than before. Southerners are moving all over the country and non-Southerners are moving into the South." One intellectual who has returned is Sheldon Hackney, 42, a Southern historian who became provost of Princeton, then moved to New Orleans to become president of Tulane. He and his wife, Hackney says, "always knew we would like to come back to the South and see what we could contribute...
...machine-gun crew in a hot firefight near the home of Samir Tabet, provost of the American University of Beirut, selected the roof of Tabet's car as a new gun position. Before opening fire, however, they carefully spread newspapers on the roof so the tripod would not scratch the paint...