Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once scorned and now admired, Harvard's Graduate School of Education has honed some of the country's sharpest schoolmasters. It is nonetheless an administrative nightmare, with its 80 teachers and 700 students scattered all over Cambridge, some in ancient wooden houses. For 15 months the school has lacked a successor to ex-Dean Francis Keppel, who quit to become U.S. Commissioner of Education. And the school needs money. Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey recently warned that next year it may be $500,000 in the red. Harvard abhors fiscally unbalanced deans, mused Pusey...
...high-quality copies in the state dining room are No. 10's own. The effect is tasteful, pleasing and unadventuresome. And perhaps it was the great English art theoretician John Ruskin who gave a clue why No. 10 should never be much altered. He wrote, of any ancient building: "Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown...
...temples": the dams and power plants rising across the face of India. In 1964 the world is hungry for electric power as never before-and is struggling to overcome a shortage of it. From Singapore, where new entrepreneurs hawk the output of 10-kw. mobile generators, to Switzerland, where ancient glaciers help turn turbines as they melt, East and West this year are expected to consume a staggering three trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity. That is double 1954's consumption-and by 1974 the total is expected to double again...
There are problems, of course. Every piercee lives in fear that sometime the earring will be yanked through the bottom of her lobe. Ear piercing provides a potential modern analogy of the ancient Chinese tortures, in which victims were suspended by their thumbs. One girl, hiking in the White Mountains, found that her earrings were so long that they kept catching on low-droping branches. Finally, she took to wearing a sailor hat for fear that she might keep walking some time when her earring was hooked on a branch a few feet back...
...colored men's cage at the Hinds County Jail consists of a hundred-foot corridor with five eight-man cells on either side. Everything except the floor is made of unpainted blue steel--the floor is of ancient cracked cement. Each cell is eighteen feet wide by eleven feet deep with two barred and screened windows. There is a hole in the floor of each cell which serves as a toilet--it is flushed periodically by trusties who happen by. There is a needle-spray cold water shower in the large day room (in which the prisoners are locked from...