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...based on Holt's minute note taking and sharp observation in 14 years of teaching above-average students in such selective sanctuaries as Aspen's Colorado Rocky Mountain School, Cambridge's Shady Hill and Boston's Commonwealth. The son of an affluent Manhattan insurance broker, Holt's own education included Switzerland's elite Le Rosey, Phillips Exeter and Yale ('44). Once fascinated by physics as "a way of getting at the truth of things," Holt's confidence in schooling was first shaken when the atom was split. His Exeter teacher simply asked...
...current crisis-and brokers' calls for relief-peaked two weeks ago, when the Big Board shuddered to two 13 millionplus share days in a single exhausting week (TIME, Aug. 11). As an unwanted result, said one Manhattan broker, paperwork in brokerage firms was backed up "like the Long Island Expressway in rush hour...
Ouija-Board Sociology. "From his position at the key institution on urban affairs," says a top Administration urbanologist, Moynihan "has the greatest broker position in the world." Moynihan, to be sure, is not universally admired, nor are his ideas. Some critics, like the Rev. Henry Browne, a Catholic priest on Manhattan's upper West Side, accuse him of practicing "Ouija-board sociology," while a friend from the London days, Broadcaster Paul Niven, notes that he has a "natural instinct for self-publicity." Yet few have articulated the urban crisis so well, and few have put forth so many thoughtful...
...their case, more than half the fun of travel is getting there. "Flying," says New York Film Producer Sidney Stiber, who pilots a Cessna 320, "gives you a combination of the satisfaction of intellectual accomplishment and the esthetics of flying itself." To New York Real Estate Broker Edward Cowen, such a trip offers "both pleasure and challenge," but there is no question in his mind that "the whole thing is dangerous." Says Earl Howard of Ames, Iowa, who, with his wife as copilot, flew his twin-engine Piper Aztec to a Rotary International convention in Nice this year: "If cost...
Died. Margaret Rudkin, 69, founder of Pepperidge Farm, maker of breads and other goodies, the wife of a Wall Street broker, who in 1937 started baking whole-wheat bread on doctor's orders to ease her son's asthma, was soon besieged by neighbors and local dealers, and wound up with a business encompassing 57 products and $40 million annual sales before selling out to Campbell Soup in 1961 for $28 million; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...