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...rewards, but universities also need presidents. Last week: > Kenneth Sanford Pitzer, 48, was inaugurated as Rice University's third president at a three-day academic festival marking Rice's soth year and attended by 27 famed scholars, ranging from Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi through Anthropologist Margaret Mead to Hiscorian Arnold Toynbee. Pitzer had been dean of chemistry at the University of California's Berkeley campus, and before that director of research...
...about a late distinguished scientist who, in his declining years, persisted in wearing enormous padded boots. He had developed a wholly irrational fear of falling through the interstices of that largely empty molecular space which common men in their folly speak of as the world." To this extent, writes Anthropologist Loren Eiseley, 55, has the world of science diverged from the world of common sense, with little communication between them. In his own field, Eiseley has labored to rejoin the two worlds by tracing man's 20th century behavior back to its dark evolutionary beginnings, in language that...
...Right Side. For its birthday issue this week. Foreign Affairs rounded up a particularly illustrious list of contributors, including West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ("The German Problem. A World Problem"), Anthropologist Margaret Mead ("The Underdeveloped and the Overdeveloped"), Guinea's leftist President Sékou Touré ("Africa's Future and the World"). Nigeria's West-leaning Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa ("Nigeria Looks Ahead"), General Lucius D. Clay, with a plea for a strong policy on Berlin...
...searching for in the far Pacific: the religious art of the Asmat, a little-known Papuan people who live on the waterlogged Casuarinen Coast. Last week Rockefeller's extraordinary collection of Asmat carvings was on exhibition by New York's Museum of Primitive Art, and Dutch Anthropologist Adrian A. Gerbrands, who accompanied Rockefeller to New Guinea, was on hand to explain the intricate symbolism...
Died. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 82, pioneer Arctic explorer whose painstaking, dogsled investigations of Eskimo life earned him a scholar's reputation as an author (My Life with the Eskimos), anthropologist, and all-round authority on polar life; of a stroke; in Hanover, N.H. Manitoba-born Stefansson spent ten winters and 13 summers from 1904 to 1919 living like an Eskimo while exploring uncharted polar ice fields. In 1911 the wiry explorer made his most important find: a tribe of blonde-haired Eskimos living on Victoria Island, presumably descendants of the Vikings. A writer, lecturer, and curator...