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Back in 1802, when Napoleon still cherished dreams of conquering Britain, one of his engineers proposed the construction of a tunnel under the English Channel. The British never quite forgot Napoleon's designs, and for a century and a half afterward British governments vetoed the idea of a Channel tunnel as a threat to England's island security. But Britain's decision to join the European Common Market brings to an end the historic British policy of "splendid isolation" from the Continent. Last week, as British Transport Minister Ernest Marples flew to Paris to open the first...
...Assist from the U.S. The man behind the tunnel is not a European, but Manhattan Lawyer Frank Davidson, 43. Appalled by a rough Channel crossing in 1956, Davidson was the moving spirit in setting up the prestigious Channel Tunnel Study Group, consisting of his own Technical Studies Inc., a pair of venerable British and French companies associated with an 1881 attempt to bore a commercial tunnel, and the Suez Co., which, stripped of its canal, has become an investment company...
Established last January, the Atlantic Institute hopes to serve the NATO community as a channel of ideas and information between men on both sides of the ocean. It has prestigious, non-partisan backing. President Kennedy endorses the project and persuaded Lodge to take the post; U.S. representatives on the institute's board of governors include U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and former Secretary of State Christian Herter. Among distinguished European members are its chairman, Paul van Zeeland, a former Belgian Prime Minister; Antoine Pinay, a former French Prime Minister; and Paul-Henri Spaak, former NATO Secretary-General. On an initial...
WHRB's recent decision to cancel its subscription to the Good Practices Code of the National Association of Broadcasters was not motivated solely by a desire to carry hard liquor advertising over its FM channel. WHRB, like many other radio stations in the country, believes that the NAB has deteriorated into an essentially worthless organization, which does not effectively fulfill the vital tasks of serving the American listening public and lobbying in Congress for the broadcasting industry...
Several University professors offer their lectures over Channel 2, and some of the University's extension courses are presented by the station...