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...Senate Small Business Committee. Appearing last week before the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration as the first public-hearing witness on the affairs of Bobby Baker, former secretary to the Democratic Senate Majority, she told a story of stock ventures and mortgages that would have baffled brighter-looking blondes...
Drivers may not be getting any brighter, but cars are. The latest wrinkle in traffic safety is the running light...
...mass-produce good Ph.D.s. The only way to build what Stanford University Provost Frederick E. Terman calls "communities of technical scholars" is to pay big money for a few big stars. Then they can lure the lesser stars and brighter students that ultimately bring in whole industries. That idea is now getting urgent attention across the country. New research centers are being studied or built in Boston, Chicago and Detroit, in California, Florida, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Wisconsin. Physicist Berkner's center in Dallas is off to a $25 million start as a "mecca...
...group of portraits best demonstrates the artist's control of his medium. In the "Lovers," for example, the muted shades and rough, dull textures of the tiles contrast sharply with the brighter mood of the couple. Playing up the two-dimensional limitations of mosaics, Holleman has created a St. Francis who is startling in his simplicity. His square, soulful face contrasts sharply with the curved body of a bird. In all of Holleman's portraits, the most striking feature of his characters is their eyes. Carefully planned angles, precisely placed bits of tiles convey mood and emotion...
...hope is that Tridents will help Annapolis attract brighter high school seniors. "The Trident program," says one middie, "gives us something to boast about, a form of intellectual freedom and encouragement for scholarly inquiry that most fellows we know at other colleges don't necessarily have...