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Students admit that the faculty is uniquely accessible at the Ed School, and that many members have indicated that they too see a need for encouraging a collegial atmosphere, for seriously evaluating their own educational offerings, and for creating a channel for serious student opinion on school policies. The critical push for reform has this year been organized and focused, largely through the efforts of the Student Association and the course evaluation committee, on topics of great significance for the educators themselves...
Back to the '30s. As historic seafarers-and unabashed supporters of the Israelis-the British were most impatient to put the plan into operation, even without multilateral backing. One high official, resorting to undiplomatic language, urged "ramming a ship up Nasser's channel." In the upper house of Parliament, Lord Avon-the former Anthony Eden, who resigned as Britain's Foreign Minister in protest against Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement and in 1956 joined France and Israel in the Suez invasion-even raised the specter of Munich. "I do not feel myself back ten years...
Although hovercraft are still a novelty in North America and in most other parts of the world, they are becoming familiar in Britain, where they work as ferries between coastal resort towns and ply the cross-Channel route between England and France. Experimental military and civilian hovercraft skim along waterways and across marshes in Britain. And the hovercraft principle of using a thin layer of air to move heavy loads is finding increasing applications in British industry and transportation...
...model that will carry eight autos and 160 passengers, and a 165-ton craft that will carry 32 autos and 250 passengers and have skirts long enough for a 12-ft. clearance on land. Two of the 165-tonners will be in regular service across the English Channel by 1968, making their runs at speeds as high as 85 m.p.h. By the end of 1970, the company expects to have developed 300-to 400-ton air-cushion ships that will be capable of operating on the open seas. Inventor Cockerell visualizes a 10,000-ton atomic-powered craft that will...
...Netherlands Railway, Trans Europe was born of a desire to make travel truly pleasant. "I am fed up with the bureaucrats at the borders," said Den Hollander. His original plan called for a single type of train that would link a united Europe-with a spur under the Channel to Britain. Although that grand scheme has yet to be realized, Den Hollander has succeeded in eliminating visa-checking delays at borders. Nowadays customs officials do their work aboard the moving trains...