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» St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., chartered in 1784, has duplicated itself at a 260-acre campus of rolling wooded hills in Santa Fe, N. Mex. The prescribed curriculum at both campuses is 130 "basic books" of Western thought; each student body is restricted to 300; the...
Too Small to Upset. On the important matter of relations with the U.S., López Mateos feels that mutual respect and genuine friendship have rarely been higher. One of the "happy results" of the friendship was the settlement of the century-old El Chamizal border dispute, centering on a...
To Americans, the source of pain was all too familiar: a 297-page report by a parliamentary committee investigating overseas military spending. Sweeping the bases, the committee found Benghazi about to be closed, Hong Kong indefensible, Gibraltar all but useless, Singapore disorganized, Malaysia too powerful, and the new Indian Ocean...
Help from the Lords. In one typically remarkable deal, Rayne bought a 5,000-acre plot in Scotland for $2,000,000, then sold off 82 acres of it for $1,500,000. Recently he bought the controlling shares in Britain's Hazell Sun printing company from Press Lords...
Summer Cycle. Shawn points out that when he began, "dance choreography was predominantly feminine; it was like music with nothing but strings and woodwinds. It needed the brasses and drums of the male role." So in 1933 he set out to supply them. Picking his first all-male crew for...