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...Judge Values. With the help of Psychologist John Bevan, who left his associate professorship at Davidson, Kadel got 281 acres of seashore land from the city of St. Petersburg. Two fund-raising drives in St. Petersburg netted $4,000,000; the Presbyterians chipped in with $3,300,000. Florida Presbyterian opened in 1960, now has 810 students and a campus of functional modern buildings worth $14 million...
Kadel and Bevan hired teachers from established universities with the promise that they would come in on a genuinely creative experiment in education. Now F.P.C.'s faculty numbers 61, three-fourths of them Ph.D.s earning an average of $12,549 a year. Under the guidance of Bevan, who became dean, the school developed a liberal-arts curriculum anchored to a four-year core program focusing in successive years on world developments, Western civilization, Asian culture and the Christian heritage. The objective of the core program and its related science, language and elective courses is to form students...
...same theory influenced his handing the Ministry of Technology to burly Frank Cousins, a former Ban-the-Bomber and ex-general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers Union. No Cabinet post, but a respectful parliamentary secretaryship went to Jennie Lee, 60, widow of the late Nye Bevan...
Eden's love and respect for Churchill are dominated in the book by exasperation at a leader who did not always heed his right-hand man. "W. rang up in a rage because Bevan and Attlee had taken my view on how to handle De Gaulle. I didn't budge an inch." When Churchill frowned on an Eden proposal for a strong postwar France and hinted that the two of them "might be coming to a break," Eden decided that the old man was losing his balance...
...were busily dismantling Empire and clamping grey austerity on the land: "Attlee ("A modest man, and I know no one with more to be modest about"), Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps ("There, but for the grace of God, goes God"), and of course Health Minister Aneurin Bevan ("Minister of Disease...