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...York's outgoing (and scandal-tainted) School Superintendent John J. Theobald leaves a witches' brew-860 schools starved for money and choked in red tape, 40,000 teachers newly unionized and still restless after a recent strike, 1,023,875 pupils, of whom one-third come from "culturally deprived homes." This plight moved New York to look beyond the Hudson and its own inbred school administration for the best qualified superintendent in the U.S. After scouring 56 major cities for four months, the searchers, led by Dean Francis Keppel of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, solidly...
Died. Giovanni Achille Gaggia, 66, onetime Milanese cafe owner who put the press in espresso coffee in 1936 by adding a mechanical lever to his old drip machine to pressure hot water, steam and coffee into the thick syrupy brew that became an Italian specialty, after World War II started the first manufacture of pressure coffee machines; of complications following a fall; in Milan...
...outpouring of the Russian literary samovar is not everybody's cup of tea. For casual readers in particular, and restrained Western taste in general, it can be too dark, too wild and too bitter a brew. Yet it is precisely a Slavic lack of restraint and a brooding sense of evil's presence in the world that give the great Russian novelists their widely remarked dramatic powers, and place them ahead of everyone else in a less remarked achievement: the creation of unforgettably grotesque characters. From Mikhail Saltykov's hypocritical Yudushka ("Little Judas") Golovlev, to Ivan Goncharov...
...Teutonic constitution. Said one expert, recently returned from a swing through Southeast Asia: "Two of my companions had to go to a hospital to recover." But in Thailand, members of a German teaching team were startled to find that the tasty local beer was as good as the brew at home; it turned out that the beer was made by a transplanted German brewmaster. German field workers usually stay on foreign projects three years to make sure that operations are running smoothly. One of the most successful projects has been the establishment of technical schools in Ceylon, Thailand and South...
...beer that may some day make Milan famous is quite unlike the usual watery Italian brew. On the autostrada running west out of Milan, the first German brewery to be built in Italy is now under construction. When it goes into production next spring, the Prinzen Brau brewery will produce 1,350,000 gallons of heady, German-style beer a year. The man behind Prinzen Bräu: West Germany's Rudolph-August Oetker, 46, a publicity-shunning tycoon who has built an inherited baking powder business into a 100-company complex with interests ranging from shipping to insurance...