Word: working
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mike is best remembered, though, as the demolition man of TV's explosive Night Beat interview show. It worked fine as a local New York program but became hypersensational when it went network on ABC. Wallace-in the one tape in his whole career that he would like to erase-egged Mobster Mickey Cohen into calling a police officer a "sadistic degenerate" and an "alcoholic." Libel suits for $3,000,000 followed; they were settled for much less, but within a year the series was dumped. Wallace became a sort of Sonny Listen of broadcasting: the mean...
...assembly speaker, by 1918, New York's Governor. From both offices, he struggled to simplify the ramshackle state government, making New York the classic example of state administrative reform. As early as 1911, he was also engaged in the fight for social reforms (childlabor laws, maximum-work-hour legislation for women, factory safety regulations) that made New York the most advanced welfare state in the nation, and in fact later provided a working example for F.D.R.'s New Deal...
...Columbia's new policy is very similar to Harvard's. Since World War II, Harvard has not taken any classified contracts. Since then, no professor can, as part of his Harvard- supported research, work on any project whose result will not be made available to all those interested in them. However, all faculty members are free to spend some of their time as consultants for anyone whom they choose...
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...Pusey says there have been other kinds of change going on at Harvard. Because of the feeling that "it is not sufficient to pursue knowledge for itself. but that somehow knowledge must be put to work for moral, social, and political ends." new programs have developed at several of the graduate schools...