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...Carolina, Carnegie Tech and Emory are among more than 50 schools offering programs at such widely varied places as Sea Island, Ga., Zion National Park, Utah, Banff, Alta., Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., and College Station, Texas. A similar program, though not college-sponsored, is provided by Colorado's Aspen Institute, which runs five two-week courses through the year, with the added lure of skiing and sauna bathing. "The day is coming," says Columbia Graduate School of Business Dean Courtney C. Brown, "when companies will regard refreshment of their management teams as being as important as replacing obsolete machines...
...Regis needs a director for her show and finds one in cutter Van Aspen, a young Shakespeare professor from Harvard, played by Lapham. She forces Cutter to direct the program by threatening to expose the fact that he has written The Student Body, a sleazy bestseller similar to Love with a Harvard Accent...
...Swedes need backstopping, and last week a U.S. contender was announced by Colorado's Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Next spring the institute will launch a Nobel rival called the Aspen Award-a $30,000 prize to the one person in the world who "each year makes the greatest contribution to the humanities...
...Aspen Institute, a 7,800-ft. aerie in the Rockies west of Denver, is a nonprofit resort for the mind-and-muscle renewal of U.S. leaders in business, labor and government. It is the brain child of the late Chicago industrialist Walter Paepcke, creator of Container Corp. and inspirer of its "Great Ideas of Western Man" advertisements. Now chaired and cheered by Southwest Banker-Rancher Robert O. Anderson, the institute has just elected a renowned resident president: Alvin C. Eurich, head of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education, and inventor of the Aspen Award...
...Anyone can make a nomination" for the Aspen Award, says Eurich, and candidates may be in any humanistic field, such as philosophy or history, as well as literature. Final selection will be made by such eminences as William DeVane, longtime dean of Yale College, Henry Allen Moe, veteran dispenser of Guggenheim fellowships, and Lord Franks, former British Ambassador to the U.S., now provost of Oxford's Worcester College. The goal: "To recognize those creative persons who are contributing most to the clarification of the individual's role and his relationship to society...