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...TIME'S Essay section rounded out its second year, it was among the winners of the 19th annual George Polk Memorial Awards. The honors are granted by Long Island University in memory of the CBS correspondent who was assassinated in Salonica in 1948 while en route, so he thought, to an interview with the Communist rebel leader Markos Vafiades. TIME Essay won the award, said the citation, for its "factually tight, balanced and absorbing reports to help make meaningful the most baffling complexities...
...equipped to do. Foundations, says Bundy, should "search for leverage in which national resources can be more effectively put to work on a problem." One new area of experimentation under study at Ford is a long-term program to reform graduate education, involving the ten "pacesetting" universities that award the majority of Ph.D.s in the social sciences and humanities...
...Doodlebug. That was the nadir of his career. With nowhere to look but up, McDonnell took aim on a $100,000 prize: the 1929 Guggenheim Safe Air-Craft Award, for which he and two associates built a plane they called "the Doodlebug." It was an open-cockpit monoplane that McDonnell hoped to peddle as "the aerial flivver of the future." It came close to consigning him to the past...
Keeping most accident cases out of litigation, Keeton said, would eliminate the tremendous court costs that now often result in a victim's receiving less than half of a court's original award...
Thus it is that for the first time in history, the Pudding's Woman of the Year will not come to Cambridge for her award. But all is not lost. There's still the Pudding's show in New York. Maybe they'll catch Miss Bacall there...