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Basking beside the Mediterranean were a couple of Europe's comeliest blonde princesses. As she modestly took umbrage behind a beach blanket to foil photographers at Sainte-Maxime on the French Riviera, Sweden's bouncy Princess Birgitta, 24, might have thought that her already five-week honeymoon with Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, would go on forever. After all, just down the coast near Viareggio, Italy, were Belgium's lissome Princess Paolo, 23, and Prince Albert, 27, on the beach with young son Prince Philippe as they celebrated their second anniversary...
...enlivening the first year for well-prepared students has severely restricted the program by establishing highly diversified criteria of success. More important, it created complex demands on the mechanical operation of the program which made it very difficult to relate the program to actual educational requirements of undergraduates. The blanket decision to treat the new students exactly like Sophomores solved many uneasy administrative problems which would have been left open by a more student-oriented policy...
...PHOTOGRAPHER on the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News trained his telephoto lens on Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' 325-ft. yacht, the Christina, hoping to get an intimate picture of the distinguished guest aboard. He got a shot of Sir Winston Churchill, wrapped in a blanket, reading a newsmagazine that has had him as its cover subject eight times...
Your article "Programed Learning" is most unjust in its blanket criticism of textbooks. How did your education editor and Psychologist Skinner get so smart using the allegedly dull, inflexible, incomprehensible textbooks? And without the benefit of a programed learning machine...
...subcommittee had good reason to suspect that Braden and Wilkinson were Communists, wrote Justice Stewart, and reasonable grounds for trying to find out whether they were members of the Communist propaganda apparatus. The court carefully avoided any blanket endorsement of committee investigations (noted Stewart in a rare aside: "These opinions do not imply any personal views as to the wisdom or unwisdom of the creation or continuance of the committee"), but it rejected the argument that Wilkinson and Braden were being persecuted merely for attacking the committee. Nor did their attacks make them immune from questioning as Communist suspects...