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...Manhattan for good. Mullin sliced the Cage record by three seconds, and Ed Hamlin, who took second behind him, also bettered the old figure. A short hour later Mullin racked up another five points by winning the 1000-yard run in 2:17.0. Then, seemingly inexhaustible, he ran a brill-Hant anchor leg, coming from ten yards behind to take the two mile relay with a 2:00.1 split...
Over the years Jaeger had gathered manuscripts of Gregory of Nyssa from any scattered sources, and he was working with his students on the great edition. According to his associates, the work--of which eight volumes have already been published or are in the press of Brill of Leiden, Holland--will be pushed to completion...
...York began intensive drug treatment with ataractics in 1956. the number of patients in its state mental hospitals has dropped by more than 4,000 (despite a 500,000 population spurt). Admissions, including readmissions, are up 5,000 a year, but discharges are up by 8,000. Dr. Henry Brill predicted that New York's mental-hospital population would drop another 5,000, perhaps even 15,000, by 1970-which only six years ago would have been regarded as "a flight of irresponsible optimism." But no one regards the discharged patients as all totally cured: most need...
...four weeks ago, the record is more or less sung by Brian Hyland, 16, a hitherto unpublicized and untrained singer from Queens, who was "discovered" last year by a talent agent who heard him singing in the lobby of Manhattan's Brill Building, headquarters of Tin Pan Alley. Itsy Bitsy has already sold 600,000 copies, is all over the jukeboxes, TV and radio, in fact all over everything except the poor little unnamed girl in the song...
...subject of segregation, however, the government-and many educators-are adamant. "In a few years," explains Headmistress Hadassah Brill of the Luria school, "the Europeans will be in a minority in Israel. We must integrate with the Orientals to form one people, and if this isn't done in the schools it will never be done." Adds Moshe Avidor, Director General of the Ministry of Education: "Until East and West have identical standards, there is no future for Israel. Somehow these Oriental children have to be catapulted from the Middle Ages or earlier to the 20th century, from...