n017  0843  26 Jul 76
 
BC-PSYCH
c.1976 N.Y. Times News Service
    MIAMI - Physicists, engineers and an anthropologist joined
parapsychologists here this weekend in proclaiming psychics
and psychic phenomena valid and promising subjects for serious
scientific inquiry that would possibly result in major scientific
breakthroughs in medicine and space travel.
    The occasion was the first annual conference on science
and parapsychology in the 20th century, sponsored by the
University of Miami School of Continuing Studies.
    ''When I first got interested in this field,'' said Dr.
Jack Kapchan, a professor of psychology at the university
who organized the conference, ''few scientists would even
read the literature. That has changed.''
    The University of Miami now offers a course in parapsychology,
he said, and the number of similar courses at other universities
is rising.
    Because of the increasing interest in occult subjects, Kapchan
said, one of the main purposes of the conference ''is to
separate the genuine from the quackery.'' Participants have
thus reported mainly on laboratory research that is yielding
what they say is the beginning of ''empirical'' or ''concrete''
evidence of unseen ''energies,'' ''forces'' and other unexplainable
phenomena.
    ''There are energies functioning in dimensions of the universe
that we do not perceive with our five physical senses,''
said Dr. William Tiler, professor of materials science at
Stanford University, who is a widely published physicist.
However, he said, ''there seem to be latent sensory systems,''
specially evident in psychics, ''for cognition of these energies.''
    At Stanford, he said, these energies appear to have been
detected by sensitive machines, such as a magnetometer, in
''healers'' and others who claim paranormal abilities, and
he is developing more sensitive detectors to further delineate
them.
    
    
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n008  0740  28 Jul 76
 
BC-STUDENT LOANS 2takes 650
By DAVID VIDAL
c.1976 N.Y. Times News Service
    NEW YORK - There is a new maxim circulating among a growing
number of college students: study now, but why pay later?
    As the cost of a college education steadily mounts across
the country, an increasing number of students seeking a degree
and its rewards have gone into debt. Today, students owe
more than $8 billion that they have borrowed to pay for their
education.
    At the same time, a relatively small but discernibly growing
number of graduates have been declaring bankruptcy and defaulting
on their loans, in a trend that is of concern to the state
and federal agencies that grant or insure the bulk of these
loans.
    In New Jersey last year, a Stanford University Law School
graduate with a business degree and a master's in engineering
filed for bankruptcy for a total of $17,275 in student loans,
$10,000 of which was insured by the federal government. The
remainder was owed directly to Stanford, which has gone into
litigation to try to stop the bankruptcy proceeding.
    In New York, a medical school graduate liquidated a $10,000
debt immediately upon leaving school by declaring bankruptcy.
    ''We have not conducted a survey,'' said Kenneth Kohl, associate
commissioner of the Office of Guaranteed Student Loans of
the United States Office of Education, ''but the best known
reasons are that it is an easy way out of debt, the high
rate of unemployment in the 18-to-26 age group and the inability
to obtain a job in a chosen field.''
    ''In almost all the cases we've seen, the student loan obligation
is a part of others,'' he added, citing over-obligation as
another cause. He also indicated that bankruptcy can serve
as ''a vehicle for the unscrupulous to avoid debt.''
    He said that between fiscal years 1966-1970 there were 348
bankruptcy claims filed with his office. This has increased
to 2,914 in 1974, 4,559 in 1975 and 5,600 projected for 1976
- a 23 per cent increase over last year.
    According to the latest issue of Empire State Report, a
monthly newsletter on politics and government in New York
State, the guaranteed-loan program of the New York Higher
Education Services Corp., also has seen its number of student
bankruptcies rising from 313 in 1973-74 to 761 from April
to December of 1975. It estimated the cost to the loan program
for the fiscal year just ended at $2.6 million.
    Under the guaranteed student loan programs sponsored by
the federal government and about half the states, students
borrow from commercial or savings banks, savings and loan
associations or credit unions. The loan is guaranteed by
a state or private nonprofit agency or insured by the federal
government.
    The New York Higher Education Services Corp., the New Jersey
Higher Education Assistance Authority and the Connecticut
Student Loan Foundation are the pertinent regional agencies,
while such populous states as Texas and California are among
the two dozen with no agencies for student loans.
(MORE)
    
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a217  1124  29 Jul 76
AM-Everest, Bjt - 2 Takes, 460-640
By JURATE KAZICKAS
Associated Press Writer
    KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - An American Bicentennial expedition has
arrived in this mountain kingdom to attempt the ond American
conquest of Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak. If successful, the
climbers could put the first American women and the first
husband-and-wife team on the peak.
    The climbers are now in their final days of organizing and packing
14 tons of food, clothing and equipment before setting out on the
175-mile trek to the base camp at 29,028-foot Everest, known in Nepal
as Chomolungama, goddess mother of the earth.
    The 11 climbers will be the first Americans to tackle the mountain
since the successful 1963 United States expedition. Five members of
that group reached the peak first scaled by Sir Edmund Hillary of New
Zealand and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
    The U.S. Bicentennial expedition came about by chance. Phillip
Trimble, a 38-year-old State Department lawyer and leader of the team,
had been thinking of scaling a 24,000-foot peak in the Himalayas when
he lerned last December from a friend in Nepal that the French had
canceled their 1976 option to climb ,t. Everest.
    At first, Trimble said, he just chuckled at the thought, but then,
discussing it with his climbing friends, the idea of taking over the
French option proved irresistible.
    Normally two or three years are needed to organize an expedition for
Everest. This one was pulled together in less than seven months.
    Another unusual aspect of the expedition is its relatively small
size. The 1963 team had 20 members.
    Almost all members of the Bicentennial team are close friends.
Three, including Trimble, are Harvard Law School classmates.
    The team includes two women. Arlene Blum, a 31-year-old biochemist 
on the faculty of Stanford University, and Barbara Roach, 31, a
modern dance teacher from Boulder, Colo., hope to become the first
American women to climb Everest.
    And if Gerald Roach, Barbara's husband, reaches the summit too, the
couple will be the first husband-and-wife team at the top.
    The climbers will attempt the popular South Col route pioneered by
Hillary and Tenzing. But they will be battling their way up the
mountain during the difficult postmonsoon season with its shorter days
and bitter winds. The summit attempts are scheduled for the first
days of October when a ''window'' of generally clear weather is
expected.
    A Japanese team in on season.
    Altogether 54 climbers have reached the top of Mt. Everest,
identified in 1852 as the world's highest peak and named for the first
surveyor-general of India, Sir George Everest.
    Among successful climbers were two women, Junko Tabei of Japan who
made it in May 1975 and a Tibetan woman member of a Chinese expedition
that reached the top a few days after the Japanese.
    More
    
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a306  2028  29 Jul 76
AM-Everest, Correction, a217, 50
KATMANDU, to correct that these are first Americans on Everest since
1963, sub for 3rd graf: The 11 . . . in 1953.
 
    The 11 climbers will be the first Americans to tackle the mountain
since the unsuccessful 1971 International Everest Expedition headed by
Austrian Norman Deryenfurth. However, five members of a 1963 United
States expedition reached the peak first scaled by Sir Edmund Hillary
of New Zealand and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay in 1953.k
    The U.S. bicentennial, 4th graf
    
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n044  1259  29 Jul 76
 
BC-ADVISORY
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From the New York Times Magazine. (2,600)
The Connally Comeback: How a Texan
Reversed His Political Fortunes
By JAMES STERBA
    John Connally, in the year since he was acquitted on charges
of bribery, has assigned himself the task of saving the Republican
party, the nation, the free-enterprise system and the free
world. In the process, Connally has been so successful at
saving his own political fortunes that he is considered a
leading candidate for the Republican vice-presidential nomination
on the Ford ticket. How did he manage it? James Sterba is
a national correspondent for The New York Times based in
Houston. His perceptive article.
FOR RELEASE: Aug. 8
From The New York Times Magazine. (2,600)
Black Conservative Marches To
Not So Different Drummer
By THOMAS SOWELL
    Are black liberals a media stereotype? One black conservative
believes they are. He says many blacks across the United
States see little benefit in affirmative action programs
or school busing to achieve racial balance. In fact, he says,
blacks made more progress for themselves before such programs
were instituted. Lying is one of the first things done in
many noble causes, he says, and ''busing'' and ''affirmative
action'' are no exception. Thomas Sowell is a fellow at the
Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford,
Calif. He is the author of ''Race and Economics.''
FOR RELEASE: Aug. 8
From The New York Times Magazine. (2,100)
Polish Humor Pokes
Fun at the Soviets
By ALAN LEVY
    Polish jokes in Warsaw are unlikely to outrage such ethnic
defense groups as the Polish-American Congress - because
they're directed at the Russians. If there is a stereotype
in the Polish joke, it's the Super Pole, the prodigious drinker.
Analyzing the wit and wisom of Poland's humor is Alan Levy,
an American writer living in Vienna. He is the author of
''The Blue Bird of Happiness: The Memoirs of Jan Peerce.''
FOR RELEASE AT WILL
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Rosalynn Carter Clarifies
Many of Her Husband's Stands
By ABIGAIL McCARTHY
    Rosalynn Carter's prominent role in the Carter for President
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and programs. In a warm, personal interview, Abigail McCarthy
discussed campaigning with Mrs. Carter, who explained that
her role is to clarify her husband's positions with concise,
specific statements. She tends to put controversy into its
historical context. This column is a bonus for One Woman's
Voice clients, and is offered to others as a Category E item.
In two weeks, Mrs. McCarthy will also interview Joan Mondale
for another extra column. Abigail McCarthy is the author
of ''Private Faces-Public Places,'' an account of her years
as a teacher and a political wife, called one of the ''best
political memoirs in years,'' by Washington reviewers. She
is at work on a new book about women.
FOR U.S. Points, all offerings are Category E.
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at Telex. 2226717.
    
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a272  1655  29 Jul 76
AM-With Bus, 2 takes, 490-670
By SID MOODY
AP Newsfeatures Writer
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The three ''California good life'' youths who
played together, worked together and, police say, kidnaped together
had one more thing in common Thursday: they were all in custody.
    Police in two countries completed the arrest of the trio yesterday
with the early morning seizure of James L. Schoenfeld, 24, near his
home in suburban Atherton just as his brother, Richard, 22, was being
transported to Chowchilla to plead innocent to charges of kidnaping
26 school children and their bus driver there July 16. The third
suspect, Frederick N. Woods, 24, was arrested a few hours later in
Vancouver, Canada. Richard Schoenfeld had surrendered vountarily a
week ago.
    Still a mystery was why the three sons of well-to-do parents
abruptly gave up a casual life of occasional odd jobs, tinkering with
cars, neighborhood card games of hearts and Sierra pack trips and
allegedly turned to a crime of almost fictional implausibility.
    Friends, family and neighbors can give no clues. ''It all just blows
me off the wall,'' said a neighbor of Woods who was a best friend of
James Schoenfeld at Woodside High School.
    The friendship apparently formed at the school, a modern campus-like
expanse of buildings shadowed by the coastal mountains of the San
Francisco Peninsula where many wealthy Californians make their homes.
    In the late 1960s, Woodside High was an all-white school of 2,000
students who, as many of their same age across the nation, were
involved in Vietnam protests, drugs, long hair and causes. Woods and
the Schoenfelds, however, remained neatly groomed, stayed away from
drugs or the mainstream of campus ferment and were remembered, if at
all, as among ''the quiet ones.''
    Their one mutual passion was buying derelict old cars and fixing
them up for resale, a source of walking-around money. Woods inherited
the interest. His father, Frederick N. Woods III, president of the
quarry in Livermore, across the bay, where the Chowchilla childen were
sealed in a buried moving van trailer, collects vintage autos. At
least four antique fire engines are stored in sheds on the 78-acre
estate the family owns in the foothills in back of Stanford
University.
    The Woods are descendants of early settlers in California and heirs
of the Newhall Land and Farming Co., a prosperous conglomerate with
extensive holdings in the state including the Magic Mountain resort in
the Sierra.
    The Schoenfelds are the sons of an Atherton podiatrist. Richard
varied his interest in cars with horses which he like to trailer into
the Sierra to camp, hunt and fish. Neighbors described him as open,
industrious and sincere: ''a Boy Scout type.'' The day after police
say he helped entomb the children in the quarry, he began babysitting
for a week for a neighbor's 14-year-old son while they were awawy on
a trip.
    He had taken occasional odd jobs through a Palo Alto employment
agency including several hitches in the mail room at the Stanford
linear accelerator. ''I certainly like the young man,'' said his
supervisor, Mildred Strachan. James had also taken a parttime job
through the agency and his employer liked him so much he wanted him
back.
    MORE
    
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a004  2138  29 Jul 76
PM-Bus Question, 490
With Bus Bjt
By SID MOODY
AP Newsfeatures Writer
    ATHERTON, Calif. (AP) - The mystery curls through the Chowchilla
kidnaping like a giant question mark:
    Why?
    With all three young suspects in custody - the last two arrested
Thursday - answers may now be forthcoming. Whatever they are,
residents of this affluent horse and garden suburb will still ponder
what exactly turned three former schoolmates from typical
car-tinkering boys next door into alleged perpetrators of a crime so
improbable at least one producer is considering a movie.
    The three are:
    James L. Schoenfeld, 24, easy-going, affable, whose passing
interests run to the Beach Boys in pop music and Wild Kingdom on TV
and whose passions run to restoring derelict cars.
    His brother, Richard, 22, who likes to trailer his two horses into
the Sierra to camp, hunt and fish and who, the day after 26 school
children and their bus driver were sealed in a makeshift underground
crypt, began a week's babysitting for an absent neighbor's 14-year-old
son.
    Frederick N. Woods, 24, descendant of California pioneers, heir to a
fortune, also a car buff, quiet and withdrawn.
    The trio became friends at Woodside High, a campus-like school for
children of the well-to-do only recently integrated by busing in black
students from East Palo Alto. Cars cemented the friendship.
    ''If Jim could have anything,'' said a friend, ''he would have a
two-acre plot with 100,000 cars to work on the rest of his life.''
    James and Richard are sons of a podiatrist and lived with their
parents on a shaded road at the edge of town where abundantly
landscaped homes give way to pastureland where horses graze. Woods
lived in Portola Valley, about 10 miles away, on his family's 78-acre
ranch-like estate in the foothills of the coastal range in back of
Stanford University.
    James Schoenfeld and Woods were partners - in business as well as,
police say, in crime. They went to auctions throughout the state
buying used up vehicles from the federal government, the police,
anybody, and hauling them back to the meadows about Woods' bungalow
where they got them running again, then sold them.
    Woods had been married for a year, a teen-age romance that didn't
last. Both Schoenfelds attended local colleges and took occasional
jobs through a Palo Alto employment agency. Their employers gave them
high marks for industry and amiability.
    What turned them to a kidnaping that reportedly was seeking a
$5-million ransom to be delivered by an air drop in crushproof
suitcases is a question none who knew them can answer. The universal
reaction in the community has been disbelief.
    ''Then you hear they're being held in $1 million bail, and you
wonder,'' said a Schoenfeld neighbor.
    ''I can't imagine Jim not telling the truth,'' said John Kirby, a
city official in nearby Mountain View who had dealings with him and
Woods. ''He is not devious.''
    But the mystery of what else he and his two friends are remains
locked up with them in their cells.
    
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a077  0555  30 Jul 76
PM-Bus Question, Sub, a004, 30
ATHERTON, Calif., sub for 4th graf from the bottom to delete
unattributed reference to turning to kidnaping: What turned them xxx
been disbelief.
 
    There have been reports that the aim of the kidnaping was the
seeking of a $5 million ransom.
    The universal reaction in the community has been disbelief.
 
    ''Then you: 3rd graf from end
    
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n124  2155  29 Jul 76
 
BC-CHILDREN-BOYS 1stadd
CHOCHILLA, Calif.: business.
(REPEATING FOR ALL NEEDING)
 
    His partner in the auto restoration venture was Frederick
Newhall Woods, 24, member of a wealthy family living on y Prtola Valley.
    ''They were always busy,'' said Muldown, ''fixing cars or
motorcycles, helping in the yard, cleaning up.'' Other neighbors
report the two young men seemed always available for odd
jobs, and the younger one had recently completed the painting
of two neighborhood houses, a part-time job he took on at
$5 an hour for friends of the family.
    He also worked part-time at Stanford University in nearby
Palo Alto as a mail deliverer.
    ''They were very naive,'' said Muldown, ''not streetwise
at all. They just grew up in a suburban, pretty, secure,
comfortable spot.''
    Both, he said, seemed normally relaxed and easy-going. ''Rick
may have been a little tight during that last week, but it
may have been my imagination,'' he said.
    ''I just can't see them doing the guns on the kids bit,''
he said. The kidnapers of the children were armed, and at
least one had a shotgun.
    Both young men attended Canada College, a junior college
in Redwood City, Calif., for two years, and Jim had gone
on to California State University at Hayward. He had planned
to return in the fall. His interest was in the computer field.
Rick was no longer attending school. He had been a wrestler
in college.
    Both were described by Muldown as ''of average intelligence,''
although a young mechanic who worked with Jim Schoenfeld
in the car restoration buysiness referred to him as ''very
smart, especially in math.''
    The Schoenfelds had dated casually, although Rick was said
to have a steady girlfriend. One of Muldown's daughters,
who attends a girl's school, said she often ''fixed up''
both brothers with dates from among her acquaintances.
    
 
    
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n009  0756  30 Jul 76
 
BC-ADVISORY (550)
SPECIAL FEATURES OFFERINGS FOR USE
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C E N T E R P I E C E
FOR RELEASE: August 8
From the New York Times Magazine. (2,600)
The Connally Comeback: How a Texan Reversed His Political
Fortunes
By JAMES STERBA
    John Connally, in the year since he was acquitted on charges
of bribery, has assigned himself the task of saving the Republican
Party, the nation, the free-enterprise system and the free
world. In the process, Connally has been so successful at
saving his own political fortunes that he is considered a
leading candidate for the Republican vice-presidential nomination
on the ford ticket. How did he manage it? James Sterba is
a national correspondent for The New York Times based in
Houston. His description of Connally's travels is up-to-the-minute,
a most perceptive article.
 
FOR RELEASE: Aug. 8
From The New York Times Magazine. (2,600)
Black Conservative Marches To Not So Different Beat
By THOMAS SOWELL
    Are black liberals a media stereotype? One black conservative
believes they are. He says many blacks across the United
States see little benefit in affirmative action programs
or school busing to achieve racial balance. In fact, he says,
blacks made more progress for themselves before such programs
were instituted. Lying is one of the first things done in
many noble causes, he says, and ''busing'' and ''affirmative
action'' are no exception. Thomas Sowell is a fellow at the
Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford,
Calif. He is the author of ''Race and Economics.''
 
FOR RELEASE: Aug. 8
From The New York Times Magazine. (2,100)
Polish Humor Pokes Fun at the Soviets
By ALAN LEVY
    Polish jokes in Warsaw are unlikely to outrage such ethnic
defense groups as the Polish-American Congress - because
they're directed at the Russians. If there is a stereotype
in the Polish joke, it's the Super Pole, the prodigious drinker.
Analyzing the wit and wisdom of Poland's humor is Alan Levy,
an American writer living in Vienna. He is the author of
''The Blue Bird of Happiness: The Memoirs of Jan Peerce.''
 
FOR RELEASE AT WILL
Not from The New York Times Magazine. (900)
Rosalynn Carter Clarifies Many of Her Husband's Stands
By ABIGAIL McCARTHY
    Rosalynn Carter's prominent role in the Carter for President
campaign shows her unique influence on Jimmy Carter's policy
and programs. In a warm, personal interview, Abigail McCarthy
discussed campaigning with Mrs. Carter, who explained that
her role is to clarify her husband's positions with concise,
specific statements. She tends to put controversy into its
historical context. This column is a bonus for One Woman's
Voice clients, and is offered to others as a Category E item.
In two weeks, Mrs. McCarthy will also interview Joan Mondale
for another extra column. Abigail McCarthy is the author
of ''Private Faces-Public Places,'' an account of her years
as a teacher and a political wife, called one of the ''best
political memoirs in years,'' by Washington reviewers. She
is at work on a new book about women.
    (FOR U.S. POINTS, ALL OFFERINGS ARE CATEGORY E)
    (To purchase the above material call John Osenenko or Peter
Willett in New York (212) 556-1721 or 556-1114. In Europe
or Middle East contact Paul Gendelman in Paris, 073-9513
(Telex 230650) In the Far East contact Ray Falk in Tokyo
at Telex 2226717)
    
    
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n004  0712  31 Jul 76
 
BC-ADVISORY (550)
SPECIAL FEATURES OFFERINGS FOR USE
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C E N T E R P I E C E
FOR RELEASE: August 8
From the New York Times Magazine. (2,600)
The Connally Comeback: How a Texan Reversed His Political
Fortunes
By JAMES STERBA
    John Connally, in the year since he was acquitted on charges
of bribery, has assigned himself the task of saving the Republican
Party, the nation, the free-enterprise system and the free
world. In the process, Connally has been so successful at
saving his own political fortunes that he is considered a
leading candidate for the Republican vice-presidential nomination
on the ford ticket. How did he manage it? James Sterba is
a national correspondent for The New York Times based in
Houston. His description of Connally's travels is up-to-the-minute,
a most perceptive article.
 
FOR RELEASE: Aug. 8
From The New York Times Magazine. (2,600)
Black Conservative Marches To Not So Different Beat
By THOMAS SOWELL
    Are black liberals a media stereotype? One black conservative
believes they are. He says many blacks across the United
States see little benefit in affirmative action programs
or school busing to achieve racial balance. In fact, he says,
blacks made more progress for themselves before such programs
were instituted. Lying is one of the first things done in
many noble causes, he says, and ''busing'' and ''affirmative
action'' are no exception. Thomas Sowell is a fellow at the
Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford,
Calif. He is the author of ''Race and Economics.''
 
FOR RELEASE: Aug. 8
From The New York Times Magazine. (2,100)
Polish Humor Pokes Fun at the Soviets
By ALAN LEVY
    Polish jokes in Warsaw are unlikely to outrage such ethnic
defense groups as the Polish-American Congress - because
they're directed at the Russians. If there is a stereotype
in the Polish joke, it's the Super Pole, the prodigious drinker.
Analyzing the wit and wisdom of Poland's humor is Alan Levy,
an American writer living in Vienna. He is the author of
''The Blue Bird of Happiness: The Memoirs of Jan Peerce.''
 
FOR RELEASE AT WILL
Not from The New York Times Magazine. (900)
Rosalynn Carter Clarifies Many of Her Husband's Stands
By ABIGAIL McCARTHY
    Rosalynn Carter's prominent role in the Carter for President
campaign shows her unique influence on Jimmy Carter's policy
and programs. In a warm, personal interview, Abigail McCarthy
discussed campaigning with Mrs. Carter, who explained that
her role is to clarify her husband's positions with concise,
specific statements. She tends to put controversy into its
historical context. This column is a bonus for One Woman's
Voice clients, and is offered to others as a Category E item.
In two weeks, Mrs. McCarthy will also interview Joan Mondale
for another extra column. Abigail McCarthy is the author
of ''Private Faces-Public Places,'' an account of her years
as a teacher and a political wife, called one of the ''best
political memoirs in years,'' by Washington reviewers. She
is at work on a new book about women.
    (FOR U.S. POINTS, ALL OFFERINGS ARE CATEGORY E)
    (To purchase the above material call John Osenenko or Peter
Willett in New York (212) 556-1721 or 556-1114. In Europe
or Middle East contact Paul Gendelman in Paris, 073-9513
(Telex 230650) In the Far East contact Ray Falk in Tokyo
at Telex 2226717)
    
    
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n029  0959  04 Aug 76
 
BC-EDUCATION NOTES 550
By GENE I. MAEROFF
c.1976 N.Y. Times News Service
    NEW YORK - The growing complexities of big government are
helping give birth to a new academic discipline, the graduate
study of the planning and analyzing of public policy.
    Government itself has long been a matter of academic interest,
and the programs in public administration that began at universities
after World War I were an early effort at institutionalizing
the subject.
    By the 1960s, there was a feeling among some academicians
and public officials that the traditional public administration
approach was not providing students with the tools they needed
to deal with the kinds of demands that were being placed
on the public sector.
    Cost benefit analysis, microeconomic theory, decision analysis,
the use of statistics and political and organizational action
are all involved in the public policy programs, which lean
heavily on the work being done in schools of business and
schools of management.
    There are at least 15 major university programs in public
policy today and they are among the most popular offerings
in graduate education. Most of the programs are at the master's
level, and a few are on the bachelor's and doctoral levels.
    The Ford Foundation recently granted a total of $1 million
to support the public policy programs at eight institutions
- Texas, Stanford, Michigan, the University of California
at Berkeley, Duke, Harvard, Carnegie Melon and the Rand Corp.
of Santa Monica, Calif.
    In addition, Yale announced last fall that it would establish
a Graduate School of Organization and Management, making
it the latest university to enter the field.
    ''Public policy schools want to train people who can analyze
a problem quickly and have the tools and theory to figure
out a solution,'' said Joel L. Fleishman, director of the
Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs at Duke.
    Since its inception in 1972, the program at Duke has grown
into the seventh largest major in the university, now enrolling
200 students. It is one of the few public policy programs
that includes undergraduates.
    Like all of the other public-policy programs, the one at
Duke has a strong interdisciplinary orientation. In fact,
graduate-degree candidates at Duke in public policy are required
to have a joint major.
    The largest number are pursuing a law degree along with
their public-policy program, and the next largest category
comprises doctoral candidates in political science. Others
are getting the master's degree in public policy along with
a master's in business administration or engineering or a
medical degree.
 
    The National Science Foundation has awarded $946,171 to
support projects intended to attract and retain women in
scientific careers, which traditionally have included a small
proportion of women.
    More than $200,000 of the funds will be used to establish
workshops in 17 states that women college students can attend
to learn more about careers in science.
    The rest of the money will be spent on projects to reach
women who received degrees in science during the last 15
years, but are not working in the fields for which they were
trained. The object will be to try to get the women to get
into scientific careers.
    Fewer than 10 per cent of the country's scientific workers
today are women.
    
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BC-SUSPECTS 2takes 900
By WAYNE KING
c.1976 N.Y. Times News Service
    SAN FRANCISCO - When 24-year-old Fred Woods, the last to
be arrested of the three young men charged with the kidnaping
and entombment of 26 schoolchildren, was taken into custody
in Canada a week ago, he was dressed, as a Canadian official
put it, ''like an amateur cowboy'' - high-heeled boots, faded
brown denim suit and a rancher's hat saucily curled over
long brown sideburns.
    When five members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police placed
him under arrest, he remarked ''I'm really sorry I'm going
to miss this on the news tonight.''
    Back at the cheap hotel where he was taken to pick up his
single suitcase of belongings, he reintroduced himself to
the desk clerk. ''I'm sorry,'' he said, ''I'm not Ralph Snider
(the false name he had registered under) I'm Frederick Woods.
From now on, I'll introduce myself as Frederick Woods.''
    It was a bravura performance, the lanky young man dressed
like a drugstore cowboy, cracking jokes with the Mounties,
grinning ear to ear and even granting an interview later
to a newsman, telling him he was in Canada for ''a vacation.'
    It is an exaggeration to say that there seemed to be two
Fred Woodses - the shy, unsocial young man who see
ed to
seek solace in the old cars and other possessions he surrounded
himself with on the family estate, and the cocky, wise-cracking
''cowboy'' accused of kidnaping - but two aspects of his
personality emerge from conversations with those who knew
him casually and those who knew him well.
    These include three people who, arguably, k ew him best
- a woman whose year-long marriage to him ended in divorce,
and two young women who were his girlfriends after his marriage.
    Others knew him casually, for he had few close friends and
among the casual acquaintances were schoolmates, neighbors,
the young mechanic who helped him restore the old cars he
sold as abusiness venture, some relatives and some family
friends.
    From these accounts, it appears that Woods was shy, but
occasionally bold and venturesome, blushingly, almost embarrassingly
friendlgy and self-effacing, yet capable of sharp hostility
toward those he felt vncroached on what was his. He was wealthy
and lavished money on the things he 2anted, his possessions,
but stingy in all else.
    He ha9d boyish charm that enabled him, when he could overcome
his shyness, to enter into intimate relationships with women,
but the relationships seemed to end quickly, and over these
relationships there was the same quick, jealous guarding
that caused him to ward off intruders on the family estate
with a shotgun, and, on at least one occasion, with gunfire.
    Frederick Newhall Woods was born 24 years ago, the son of
Harriet Wright and Frederick Nickerson Woods 3d.
    The middle name, Newhall, is one of prominence and wealth.
A relative said that the family can trace its ancestry to
six Mayflower pilgrims, including John Alden and William
Bradford, the governor of Plymouth.
    The Newhall Land and Farming Co. commands huge investments
in real estate, agriculture, cattle, oil and gas. Through
his relationship with the family, Woods stood to inherit,
according to one source, one thirty-sixth of a fortune.
    His father, a 1938 graduate of Stanford University and a
native of Massachusetts, is owner of the California Rock
and Gravel Co., and of the gravel quarry where the bus and
children were buried. The company reported gross sales of
$1.5 million last year, and the young Woods is reported to
hold stock in the company.
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