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...great Roman emperor Augustus, grandnephew of Julius Caesar, was frightened of thunder and fond of virgins, but his most publicized characteristic was opposition to ostentation. He lived, according to the historian Suetonius, in a modest house on Rome's Palatine Hill. But his successor, Tiberius, crowned the hill with an elaborate palace, and when the Roman Empire fell, barbarian kings. Popes and nobles made their homes on the Palatine...
...airmen hung up another speed record last week when an Air Force four-jet B58 Hustler bomber reached Paris exactly 3 hr. 19 min. 41 sec. after passing over Roosevelt Field, L.I. (now a shopping center), where Charles Augustus Lindbergh started his famed solo transatlantic flight 34 years ago. The Hustler's speed (average: 1,050 m.p.h.) was nearly ten times as fast as Lindbergh's, who covered the 3,600-mile distance in 33 hr. 29 min. 30 sec. But Lindbergh's single-engined (223 h.p.) ship went all the way on one filling...
...Medical School has also named Dr. Harold F. Schuknecht, a surgeon and specialist in deafness, to the Walter Augustus Lecompte Professorship of Oncology. In addition, he will become a professor of Laryngology. Schuknecht, has been a surgeon and research director at the Henry Ford Hospital of Detroit, will succeed Dr. LeRoy A. Schall in July...
...Augustus Thorndike, surgeon of the department of athletics, agreed that Kirkland House had been "hit hard." But he called the number of accidents this year "startlingly smaller" than those in past years...
Decrees & Democracy. Whether the years of the Kennedy Administration will be remembered for poetry remains to be seen, but the new Administration is certainly much occupied with power and how to use it. Unlike Augustus, the President of the U.S. cannot rule by decree. He has to work through and within the power-diffusing patterns of representative democracy, and the new Administration is finding that translating plans and hopes into achievements is slow, plodding work. So far, the vast differences in style and tone between the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations have been matched by no comparable differences in substance. Items...